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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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8 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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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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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“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...
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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African History...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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a year ago
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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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
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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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),...
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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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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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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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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What Is Theodicy?
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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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...
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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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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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No More Heroes.
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Why Socrates Matters
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What is Modernity?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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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...
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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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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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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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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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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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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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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".
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
3 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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