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Top 5 Historic Sites of North Africa undefined
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5 Must-See Historical Sites in Chicago undefined
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 “…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death    ...
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“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the...
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The First African American Army General: Who Was Benjamin O. Davis Sr? undefined
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The Shophouse: 9 Things to Know About Asia’s Iconic Dwelling undefined
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966) As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly...
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As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the...
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Van Gogh Museum Won’t Attribute $50 Garage Sale Painting undefined
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Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius...
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Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE; this week, we’ll wrap up this look by discussing Tiberius’ younger brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and his terms as...
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An In-Depth Guide to Ancient Greek Vase Painting undefined
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Thomas of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy undefined
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Marcus Aurelius' Stoic Paradoxes Contradictions that Rewire Us
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Unrecorded Sketch by John Constable Could Fetch $250,000 undefined
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Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians: Brutal Leader or Peace-Seeker? undefined
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What Did Max Weber Say About Capitalism? undefined
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What will become of the Sensitive Young Men? Wrong Side of History round-up #59
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The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene It’s practically guaranteed that we now have more stupid people on the planet than ever before. Of...
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It’s practically guaranteed that we now have more stupid people on the planet than ever before. Of course, we might be tempted to think; just look at how many of them disagree with my politics. But this unprecedented stupidity is primarily, if not entirely, a function of an...
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Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966 Note: Yesterday, Marianne Faithfull passed away at age 78. In her memory, we’re bringing back a...
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Note: Yesterday, Marianne Faithfull passed away at age 78. In her memory, we’re bringing back a favorite from deep in our archive. It originally appeared on our site in June 2012. When you want to learn a thing or two about Jean-Luc Godard, you turn to New Yorker film critic...
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Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E‑Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students... Several years ago, Google launched a series of Career Certificates that will “prepare learners for...
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Several years ago, Google launched a series of Career Certificates that will “prepare learners for an entry-level role in under six months.” Their first certificates focused on Project Management, Data Analytics, User Experience (UX) Design, IT Support and IT Automation. And they...
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Venus in Art Through the Ages: A Timeless Symbol of Love and Beauty undefined
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Judas Iscariot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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“First of Its Kind” Art Center Opens in New York undefined
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Ancient Greek Art and Architecture: An Evolving Timeline undefined
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Matthew of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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What Is a “Glue Guy” and Why Was Danny O’Connell So Good at Being One? undefined
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Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book” A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic...
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A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this day a mystery…. It’s not as satisfying a plot, say, of a National Treasure or Dan Brown thriller, certainly not as action-packed as...
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How Does History Judge Prime Ministers? How Does History Judge Prime Ministers? JamesHoare Thu, 01/30/2025 - 09:19
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How Robert Frost Wrote One of His Most Famous Poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Several generations of American students have now had the experience of being told by an English...
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Several generations of American students have now had the experience of being told by an English teacher that they’d been reading Robert Frost all wrong, even if they’d never read him at all. Most, at least, had seen his lines “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the...
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Slavery in Ancient Rome: An Integral Part of Roman Society undefined
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Electra in Greek Tragedy: Sophocles vs. Euripides undefined
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$50 Garage Sale Painting May Be Long-Lost Van Gogh undefined
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A New Generation of Women: What Was the Jazz Age Flapper? undefined
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Archaeologists Find Lost Residence Depicted on Bayeux Tapestry undefined
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When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us...
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One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology
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Are women better at jigsaw puzzles? An analysis of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship
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Britain’s Project 2029 Can you just do things? We shall find out
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5 Fascinating Verses From the Quran About Other Religions undefined
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Katharine Raff on “Myth & Marble”: Exhibiting the Torlonia Collection in Chicago undefined
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Submarine Warfare: What Were the U-boats? undefined
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Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the Seven Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life Image via Wikimedia Commons In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I unveiled a list of the Seven Deadly Sins –...
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Image via Wikimedia Commons In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I unveiled a list of the Seven Deadly Sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – as a way to keep the flock from straying into the thorny fields of ungodliness. These days, though, for all but the most devout,...
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Following Threads to Colonial Barbados Following Threads to Colonial Barbados JamesHoare Wed, 01/29/2025 - 09:40
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Loving Couples Posing For Studio Portraits in the 1970s Before the ubiquitous smart phone and achieving physical perfection through fillers and filters,...
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Before the ubiquitous smart phone and achieving physical perfection through fillers and filters, anyone seeking a professional look hired a studio photographer. These portraits of couples from the 1970s are a release from all that narcissism. The lovers paid for these pictures...
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How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction Frank Lloyd Wright is unlikely to be displaced as the archetype of the genius architect anytime...
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Frank Lloyd Wright is unlikely to be displaced as the archetype of the genius architect anytime soon, at least in America, but even he had to start somewhere. At nine years old, as architecture YouTuber Stewart Hicks explains in the video above, Wright received a set of blocks...
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The Curse Of Zhou Bai Den. Or, masochism for fun and profit.
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James, Son of Alpheus, of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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It's Safer in the Front : Taking the Offensive against Tyranny Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to...
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Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy. “Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best, if not safest,...
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Battle of Raphia: How Did It Reshape Ancient Syria? undefined
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Leaked Memo Reveals “Poor Condition” of Louvre Museum undefined
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The History of Mural Painting and Its Cultural Significance undefined
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One Spot Left: In Search of Homer Book Now to join me on Cephalonia
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Federal Futarchy Futarchy is a new financial-market-based form of governance.
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The First Space Launch Everybody knows about the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and...
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Everybody knows about the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s, which began with the Russian Sputnik and ended with the American moon landing. But in reality, the first man-made object to enter outer space was not Russian, and not...
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What Language Does Your Brain Speak? Ockham’s Mental Language Explained undefined
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When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903 Even if you don’t speak Italian, you can make a decent guess at the meaning of the word...
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Even if you don’t speak Italian, you can make a decent guess at the meaning of the word mangiamaccheroni. The tricky bit is that maccheroni refers not to the pasta English-speakers today call macaroni, tubular and cut into small curved sections, but to pasta in general. Or at...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus,...
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We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus, and Nick Cave, along with passages from Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Melville’s Moby Dick. It’s all pretty heady stuff. And now it’s time for something completely different. Above, we...
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Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time JamesHoare Tue, 01/28/2025 - 08:38
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Finding Ourselves on Ward 81, 1976 “They are the women we might have been or one day become” – Ward 81 by Dr Karen Jacobs and Mary Mark...
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“They are the women we might have been or one day become” – Ward 81 by Dr Karen Jacobs and Mary Mark Ellen   In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her friend, the sociologist Dr. Karen Folger Jacobs, documented the lives of women living in the high-security, all-female wing...
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Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher Emperor of Rome undefined
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Túpac Amaru II: The Greatest Inca Revolutionary You’ve Never Heard Of undefined
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Greece in WWI: The Peak, Fall, & Legacy of the “Megali Idea” undefined
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Thieves Blast Open Dutch Museum Door to Steal Gold Artifacts undefined
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Andy Warhol’s Life After Death: Cards, Posters And Other Post-Warhol Ephemera Andy Warhol’s star shone brighter after his death on February 22, 1987. The artist succumbed to...
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Andy Warhol’s star shone brighter after his death on February 22, 1987. The artist succumbed to cardiac arrest while in hospital for gall bladder surgery. Prolific, talented and successful in life, much of Warhol’s work only came to light after his unexpected death, such as early...
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Romans About? undefined
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Epicurus and The Pursuit of Happiness Tasting the Perfect Tomato
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What Is Rousseau’s Social Contract Theory? (Definition & Criticisms) undefined
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Rats! The Year of the Plague #2
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‘The Grammar of Angels’ by Edward Wilson-Lee review ‘The Grammar of Angels’ by Edward Wilson-Lee review JamesHoare Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:34
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Was the USSR a Colonial Power? undefined
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How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music Imagine how many times someone born in the eighteen-sixties could ever expect to hear music. The...
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Imagine how many times someone born in the eighteen-sixties could ever expect to hear music. The number would vary, of course, depending on the individual’s class and family inclinations. Suffice it to say that each chance would have been more precious than those of us in the...
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A 1933 Profile of Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art” Walter Keane—supposed painter of “Big Eyed Children” and subject of a 2014 Tim Burton film—made a...
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Walter Keane—supposed painter of “Big Eyed Children” and subject of a 2014 Tim Burton film—made a killing, attaining almost Thomas Kinkade-like status in the middlebrow art market of the 1950s and 60s. As it turns out, his wife, Margaret was in fact the artist, “painting 16 hours...
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Who Was Huayna Capac? The Life & Times of the Last True Inca King undefined
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The Nsibidi script ca. 600-1909 CE: a history of an African writing system Nsibidi is one of Africa's oldest independently invented writing systems.
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Weekend Roundup Leadership and the Ancients
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What Is the Paradox of Time Travel? undefined
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Art Lovers: What Are the Top Attractions in Venice? undefined
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Why Do Luxury Brands Create Their Own Philosophies? undefined
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The ‘Urabi Revolt: Egypt vs. British & French Intervention undefined
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Manuel Orazi’s Occultist Magic Calendar Mil DCCCXCVI, 1895 This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer...
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This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer Manuel Orazi (1860 – 1934) was printed in an symbolic edition of 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. Each double page uses the Christian calendar (name...
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What Were Henri Matisse’s Composition Techniques? undefined
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Who Was the Real-Life Pirate Queen? undefined
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Our philanthropists and their oligarchs Some foreign billionaires seem to be welcome in British politics
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6 Must-See Marvels of Inca Architecture undefined
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Roman Emperor Elagabalus: Scandal and Controversy undefined
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Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland: Here’s What Happened undefined
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Recieves “Historic” Bernini Sculpture undefined
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Pre-Columbian Megaliths: A Hidden Legacy of the Americas undefined
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Gap Week (January 24, 2025) Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of...
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Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my …...
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What Is Infinity? A Philosophical Approach undefined
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Antigone Storms and Tyrants
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How True Is the Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson (Viking Hero)? undefined
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Dirty Tricks: Who Is Roger Stone? undefined
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Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All...
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There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All of the socioeconomic and cultural fault lines communities would rather paper over become fully exposed in debates over funding, curriculum, districting, etc. But we rarely hear...
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The Sun by Frans Masereel, A Story Without Words – 1919 “One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives...
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“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” – James Baldwin, Nothing Personal      The Sun (1919) by Frans Masereel (1889–1972) opens with an artist resting his head on his desk beneath an open...
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The Mad Duchess Lives The Mad Duchess Lives JamesHoare Fri, 01/24/2025 - 09:10
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Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors Whether or not we believe in auteurhood, we each have our own mental image of what a film director...
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Whether or not we believe in auteurhood, we each have our own mental image of what a film director does. But if we’ve never actually seen one at work, we’re liable not to understand what the actual experience of directing feels like: making decision after decision after decision,...
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Is There a Destiny? A Philosophical Explanation undefined
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Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses... A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan...
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A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $199) gives you access to 90% of Coursera’s courses, Guided Projects, Specializations, and...
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Celebrity v CEO v Politician Why are celebrities, CEOs, and politicians three different types of people who don’t overlap much?
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How To Eat: An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living Registration *NOW* Open
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6 Beautiful Works by Ilya Repin You Should Know undefined
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Immigration and crime: Norway Are immigrants overrepresented in crime in Norway? And why?
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What Is First Timothy About? undefined
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How Did Aboriginal Australians Reach Australia 50,000 Years Ago? undefined
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How John Steinbeck Harnessed Desire and Self-Doubt To Write The Grapes of Wrath “This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual...
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“This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual working days and hours of a novel. If a day is skipped it will show glaringly on this record and there will be some reason given for the slip.” – John Steinbeck, Working Days, The …...
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What Is the Diamond Sutra? The Oldest Printed Book in the World undefined
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Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By...
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In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By the mid-nineties, networks were trying to figure out how to get viewers to sit through music videos at all. A solution arrived in the form of Pop-Up Video, a program pitched by...
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Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change? Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change? JamesHoare Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:18
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An Unreported Murder in East Germany An Unreported Murder in East Germany JamesHoare Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:16
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The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC) Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the...
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Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the 4,000-year-old receipt documents a transaction. A brewer, named Alulu, delivered “the best” beer to a recipient named Ur-Amma, who apparently also served as the scribe. The Mesopotamians drank...
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The History of Urban Fires: From Ancient Cities to Today undefined
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The leading AI models are now very good historians Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Power Players: 4 Vice Presidents Who Shined Beyond the President undefined
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U.K. Museums to Celebrate J.M.W. Turner’s 250th Birthday undefined
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The Black War: How Tasmania Was Born From the Ashes of the Black Line undefined
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Wandsworth Prison Blues It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
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The Sword Is Mightier... ...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
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What Is the Book of Acts About in the Bible? undefined
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The Paris Peace Conference: Who Were the Big Four? undefined
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Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one...
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Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one does become highly attuned to its many subtleties. (Granted, some of the local phenomena involved, like the notorious Santa Ana winds, can produce far-from-subtle effects.) The late...
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‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review ‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review JamesHoare Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:21
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Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery JamesHoare Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
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Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922 We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic...
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We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The school’s relationships with artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo...
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in the US This Year (2025) undefined
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in the US This Year (2025) undefined
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The Harpies: Beasts of Vengeance in Greek Mythology undefined
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Cleopatra: Her Death, Appearance, and Myths Uncovered undefined
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The Louvre Opens Its First-Ever Cimabue Exhibition undefined
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Andrew of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy undefined
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10 Crazy South African History Facts undefined
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Hidden History
The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several...
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In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several thousand sheep and provoked an outcry. In March 1968, researchers at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah were scheduled to perform three experiments involving a lethal nerve gas known as...
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Olaf Tryggvason: The Christian Viking’s Life & Death undefined
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Rise of ‘Jamesian’ Ghost Stories: Who Was M.R. James? undefined
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The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin... For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the...
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For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that it opens. It’s how the film is thought of thirty years from now.” It just so happens that Pulp Fiction, which made Tarantino the most celebrated director in America...
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Momoyogusa (A World of Things) by Kamisaka Sekka (1909-1910) Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World...
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Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World of Things) between 1909 and 1910. The three-volume set of 60 images, commissioned by the publishing firm Unsōdō of Kyoto, borrows its name from the eighth-century poetic text...
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Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:54
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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
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Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the...
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the Andromeda galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from our planet. Taking more than a decade to complete, the photomosaic captures 200 million stars, which is only a...
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Where Did King Arthur Fight His Legendary Battles? undefined
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Pollution & Deforestation in the Medieval World undefined
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Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction,...
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Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.
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What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z? undefined
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Martin Luther King and LOVE How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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The Crazy Cult of Indian Guru Osho Bhagwan & His Mixed Legacy undefined
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