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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Is the Ides of March?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
3 weeks ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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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...
over a year ago
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.
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
3 weeks ago
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
a week ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
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...
11 months ago
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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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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