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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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What Is Populism?
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Hidden History
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Secrets of the Scythians
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
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demystifying an ancient African society
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Fate and Free Will
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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The Two Big Games
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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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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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Philosophy and Children
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Flashbak
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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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...
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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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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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What Is Voguing?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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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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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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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...
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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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....
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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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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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Weekend Roundup
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
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Understanding political violence.
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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African History...
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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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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The Lives of Exiles
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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