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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
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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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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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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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
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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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Classical Wisdom
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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