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Summary Of Changes
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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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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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Patterns in Humanity
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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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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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Summary of changes for January
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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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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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
CrimethInc.
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 First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
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But some things are more connected than others.
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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