PRE-HISTORY (50,000 Before Present – 3000 BCE)
- Cave Art
- Doggerland
- The Extinction Of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Humans To Invent Civilization
- The Inga Stone
- Stone Tools Used By Homo Erectus Discovered
- Venus Figurines
ANCIENT HISTORY (3000 BCE – 500 CE)
Ancient History
Ancient China
Mesopotamia
POST-CLASSICAL HISTORY / Medieval History (500 CE – 1500)
European History
- Battle of Bosworth Field
- The Black Death (The Plague)
- Blarney Castle’s “Poison Garden”
- The Catholic Church vs. Cats
- Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales
- Globe Theatre
- Medieval Cats
- Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings
- Plague Doctors
- Richard the Lionheart
- St. George’s Day
- Worst year ever?
Court Life
MODERN HISTORY (1500 – Present)
European History
- Dr. William Price
- Joan of Arc Beatified
- Papal bull Inter gravissimas
- The Mud March
- The Wyrd Case of Margaret Dickson
Today in History
United States History
- Bloody Sunday
- Declaration of Independence
- Democratic Party Symbolized As A Donkey
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- First Person Cryonically Preserved
- Greensboro Four
- Juneteenth
- Ken Burns NYT Interview
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Lincoln’s House Divided Speech
- Myth Busting: Christopher Columbus
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Remember Pearl Harbor Day
- Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March
- Serum Run to Nome
- Today in History —> Butterfly McQueen
- Ulysses S. Grant on Religion & Taxation
- Who Were The Puritans?
- 19th Amendment Ratified
Anthropology & Archaeology
Anthropology
Archaeological Finds
- 3500 years old Ancient Egyptian Lost City Discovered
- The Euphronios Krater
- Galloway Hoard
- Iron Age Burial Uncovered In West Sussex
- Oldest Woven Basket
- Mijikenda Tribes and the Vigango Statues
- Rosetta Stone Discovered
- Terracotta Army
Top Archaeological Finds 2020
- Archaeological Finds 2020: Lost Capital of Maya Kingdom
- Archaeological Finds 2020: Over 100 Ancient Sarcophagi
- Archaeological Finds 2020: The Red Lion
- Archaeological Finds 2020: 6000 ancient tombs spanning more than 2000 years discovered in Sichuan province, China
France: Heart in Paris
French History
Court Life
French Literature, Authors and Artists
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Born Today Jean Genet and Édith Piaf
- Emile Zola
- Most Nobel Prize for Literature Winners
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Marguerite Porete
- Marie de France
- Simone de Beauvoir
Book Reviews
French Travel
Paris and Ile de France
- Paris: An Overview
- The Louvre: A Short History
- Necrography of Paris: An Introduction
- Paris Metro
- Sacré-Cœur Basilica
- Versailles: A Short History
Loire Valley
Miscellaneous French Travel
- Arles: A Van Gogh Getaway
- The Astronomical Clock of Besançon Cathedral (Besançon, Franche-Comté, France)
- French Fun Facts
- Hollow at La Meauffe (La Meauffe, Normandy, France)
- Le Mont Saint Michel
- Nicéphore Niépce
- Orient Express
- The Rotting Body of René de Chalon (Bar-Le-Duc, Lorraine, France)
European and Other Travel
European Travel (Non-France)
- Alexander Golod’s Pyramids(Ostashkov, Russia)
- The Chained Books of Hereford Cathedral (Hereford, Herefordshire – Great Britain)
- The Crooked Forest (Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania – Poland)
- The Devil Heads (Želízy, Czech Republic)
- Hill of Crosses (Meškuičiai, Šiauliai – Lithuania)
- The Merry Cemetery (Săpânţa, Maramureş, Romania)
- Temple of All Religions (Kazan, Russia)
- Wieliczka Salt Mine (Wieliczka, Poland)
Scandinavia Travel
- The Arctic Henge (Raufarhöfn, Iceland)
- Battle of Hafrsfjord Monument (Hafrsfjord, Norway)
- Icelandic Elf School (Reykjavík, Iceland)
- Kjeragbolten (Forsand, Rogaland – Norway)
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Longyearbyen, Svalbard – Norway)
- Svanslös Crosswalk
- Tollund Man (Silkeborg, Central Denmark)
Travel Essays – Other
- New Zealand Travel Ad
- President’s Room (Jerusalem, Israel)
- Razzouk Ink (Jerusalem, Israel)
- St. George’s Monastery (West Bank, Palestine)
- World’s Longest Road
- Zedekiah’s Cave / Solomon’s Quarries (Jerusalem, Israel)
Japan, Southeast Asia and Zen
Japanese Cultural Spotlight
- Doyo no Ushi no Hi
- Gift Giving Etiquette in Japan
- Ikigai (生き甲斐)
- Kanbina 甘美な (かんび な)
- Mono-No-Aware (物の哀れ)
- Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当)
- Tobi-ishi (飛石)
- 72 Micro-Seasons of Japan
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Japanese Holidays
Japanese Homes & Gardens
Japanese Language
- Hiragana: An Introduction
- Hiragana: Voiced Consonants and Other Sounds
- Katakana: An Introduction
- Katakana: Voiced Consonants and Other Sounds
- Kanji: An Introduction
- “School” Vocabulary
Japanese Death Poems
- What Are Japanese Death Poems?
- Dokyo Etan (道鏡慧端) – Japanese Death Poem
- Doyu (道祐) – Japanese Death Poem
- Gizan Zenrai (儀山善来) – Japanese Death Poem
Japanese Arts & Crafts
- Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons: Autumn and Winter
- Chigusa and the Art of Tea
- Japanese Manhole Covers (マンホールの蓋): Art Beneath Your Feet
- Origami: A Primer
- What constitutes a traditional Japanese craft?
Samurai
Travel Prefecture Guide
Fukuoka Prefecture
Gifu Prefecture
- Gifu Castle (岐阜城)
- Hida Kokubunji Temple (飛騨国分寺)
- Takayama Jinya (岐阜県 Gifu-ken)
- UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Gassho-Style Houses of Shirakawa-go
- The Rakan statues (Kyoto, Japan)
Hyōgo Prefecture
Nara Prefecture
Culinary Travel – Japan
- Chadō (茶道): The Way Of Tea
- Japanese Table Manners 101
- Kaiseki-Ryori (会席料理)
- Japanese Teas After Matcha
- Nodaiwa: Unagi Restaurant
- Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当)
- Soba Master: An Art Form
- Sushi Definitions for Foreigners
- What is the Japanese tea ceremony?
Buddhism, Shinto and Japanese Folklore
Buddhism
Fundamentals
- Four Noble Truths
- Shunryu Suzuki On Bowing in Zen
- The Noble Eightfold Path: In Bullet Points
- The 10 Zen Oxherding Pictures
- The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts
- What is Meditation?
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Mindfulness
Memorials, Monasteries, etc.
- Buddha Park of Ravangla
- The Five Giant Buddha’s of Asia
- Dambulla Cave Temple
- Longmen Caves – (龍門 石窟) Henan, China
Thích Nhất Hạnh
- 40 Years of Plum Village
- A Cloud Never Dies: A Thich Nhat Hanh Biographical Documentary
- Please do not build a stupa by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Thich Nhất Hạnh Faces Death With Dignity and A Lesson in Mindfulness
- Thich Nhat Hanh on “Right Speech”
- Tributes to Thich Nhat Hanh
- Zen Compassion
Thích Nhất Hạnh Answers
Zen Humor
Zen Buddhism Resources
Tibetan Buddhism
Shinto
Japanese Folklore
Yōkai
- Yōkai: An Introduction
- Baku (獏 / ばく)
- Haishaku (肺積 / はいしゃく)
- Haka No Hi (墓の火 / はかのき)
- Hannya (般若 / はんにゃ)
- Hashihime (橋姫 / はしひめ)
- Hiderigami (魃 or ひでりがみ)
- Hone Onna (骨女 or ほねおんな)
- Itsumade (以津真 / 天いつまで)
- Kappa (河童 / かっぱ)
- Koto Furunushi (琴古主 or ことふるぬし)
- Makuwauri No Bakemono (真桑瓜の化物 or まくわうりのばけもの)
- Myōbu (命婦 / みょうぶ)
- Shoki (鍾馗 or しょうき)
- Tōfu kozō (豆腐小僧 / とうふこぞう)
- Yama Oroshi (山颪 or やまおろし)
- Yamajijii (山爺 or やまじじい)
- Yuki-Onna (雪女, “snow woman”)
Animals
Judaism
Jewish Thought and Faith
- 613 Mitzvot (Commandments)
- American Conservative Judaism
- American Judaism: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist
- Baruch Spinoza: The God Of Spinoza
- Hannukkah…What Exactly Is It?
- Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws
- Tikkun ‘olam: Repairing the World
- The Ten Commandments Controversy
- What is a Dreidel and Why?
Evidence or No Evidence
Hebrew Alphabet
Jewish Clothing, Etc.
Jewish Food
- Jewish & Israeli Cuisine: Recipes & Techniques (Scroll below)
- Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws
Jewish Holy Books
Jewish Prayers
History, Antisemitism & Holocaust Studies
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
- What is Genocide?
- Amos Oz on Fanaticism
- Anne Frank’s Last Diary Entry
- Antisemitism: The Definitions
- Antisemitism Murder in France
- Anti-Semitism Rising In Europe
- Babi Yar
- Children of Lidice
- Communities of Hate
- Einsatzgruppen: An Overview
- First Kindertransport
- Henry Ford – Antisemite
- Kristallnacht 101
- Nazi “Death Valley” Prelude to the Holocaust
- Ordinary People Commit Atrocities
- Voyage of the St. Louis
- Zyklon B
- 80th Anniversary of the Murder of the Jews at Babi Yar
Remembrance
- Anne Frank on War
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Vigilance to Preserve the Truth
- Holocaust Days of Remembrance
- Holocaust Remembrance Day and Facebook
Resistance
- Acts of Resistance: Love Stories of the Holocaust
- Miep Gies
- Simone Segouin
- Sophie Scholl: An Introduction
- Sophie Scholl’s Final Words
- Ursula von Kardoff on Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Righteous Among Nations
Jewish Poland
- Jewish History in Poland Before World War II
- Jewish History in Poland World War II and Beyond
- Jewish Warsaw Before World War II
- Warsaw Ghetto
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Camps
Extermination Camps
- Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt
- Sonderkommando Auschwitz Revolt
- Sobibór Extermination Camp
- Sobibór Revolt
- Treblinka Extermination Camp
Ghettos
Memorials and Museums
Survivors
Nazi Propaganda
Israel
- President’s Room (Jerusalem, Israel)
- Razzouk Ink (Jerusalem, Israel)
- St. George’s Monastery (West Bank, Palestine)
- Zedekiah’s Cave / Solomon’s Quarries (Jerusalem, Israel)
Counterculture
What is Counterculture
FBI Files
Writers
- FBI Files: Charles Bukowski – Suspected Dirty Old Man
- FBI Files: Dorothy Parker – Suspected Communist
- FBI Files: Henry Miller – Suspected Nazi Sympathizer & Cult Leader
- FBI Files: Langston Hughes – Suspected Communist Party Propagandist
- FBI Files: “Roy” Bradbury – Suspected Communist, Communist Cuba supporter
- FBI Files: Truman Capote – Suspected Communist
- FBI Files: William Faulkner – Suspected Blackmail Victim and Adulterer
Philosophy
- Baruch Spinoza: The God Of Spinoza
- Chinese Thought: Confucius 孔子 (551–479 BCE)
- Existentialism
- Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma
- Plato from the “Apology”
- Plato: from “The Symposium”
- Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave
The Roaring Twenties: the Algonquin Round Table, the Bloomsbury Group & the Lost Generation
Art & Artists
- Chop Suey (1929) – Edward Hopper
- Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress (1926)
- History Of Mexico (1929-35) – Diego Rivera
- Menin Gate At Midnight (1927) – Will Longstaff
- New York, Early Twenties (1920-24) – Thomas Hart Benton
Art Movements
- Art Deco of the Roaring Twenties
- Expressionism & The Roaring Twenties
- Dadaism and the Roaring Twenties
- Surrealism and the Roaring Twenties
Authors
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Dorothy Parker
- Edith Wharton
- e.e. cummings
- James Joyce
- Robert Benchley
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Virginia Woolf
- Zelda Fitzgerald
Literary Events & Groups of the Twenties
- Algonquin Round Table
- The Bloomsbury Group
- Ezra Pound
- Franz Kafka, the little girl and her doll
- Lost Generation
- Quips, Wit and One liners of Yesteryear
Notable Books of the Twenties
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Age of Innocence (1920) – Edith Wharton
- Notable Books of the Twenties: All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Cane – Jean Toomer (1923)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Cheri – Colette (1920)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim (1923)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos (1924)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Inimitable Jeeves – P.G Wodehouse (1923)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (1928)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (1925)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: A Passage to India – EM Forster (1924)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Passing – Nella Larsen (1929)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: So Big – Edna Ferber (1924)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Trial – Franz Kafka (1925)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: Ulysses – James Joyce (1922)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Waste Land – T. S. Eliot (1922)
- Notable Books of the Twenties: The Weary Blues – Langston Hughes (1926)
Magazines of the Twenties: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, etc.
Bootleggers: Distillers & Prohibition
Events and Activities of the Twenties
Film & TV of, about or set in the Twenties
- House of Eliott (TV)
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV)
- Mr. Selfridge (TV)
- Peaky Blinders (TV)
- Upstairs, Downstairs (TV)
Singers, Dancers and Entertainers of the Twenties
- Bessie Smith & the Classic African American Female Blues of the Twenties
- Josephine Baker: American Born – French Entertainer
Songs of the Twenties
- Aba Daba Honeymoon – Helen Kane
- Blue Skies – Josephine Baker (1927)
- He’s So Unusual – Helen Kane (June 14, 1929)
- Let’s Misbehave – Cole Porter (1927)
Videos of and About the Twenties
1950’s Beatnik’s to 1960’s Hippies & Beyond
Books, Authors & Literary Events
- Book Review: A Dog’s Head by Jean Dutourd
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The Girls – Emma Cline
- Hunter S. Thompson Funeral
- i carry your heart with me(i carry it in – e.e. cummings
- Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath
- Sylvia Plath Fig Tree Metaphor
- Tulips – Sylvia Plath
Communal Living
Communes
- Bayboro Community -St. Petersburg, Florida – Active
- Cambia – Louisa, Virginia – Active
- The Farm Community – Summertown, Tennessee – Active
Cults
Manson Family
- Charles Manson’s statement to the California court 1970
- Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme, Sandra Good and ATWA (Air, Trees, Water, Animals)
- Dianne Lake: “Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties”
- Leslie Van Houten interview 12/29/1969
- Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
- Manson Family Movies
NXIVM
Drug Culture
- 4/20 Day
- Absinthe
- Bicycle Day
- Cheap High: Robotripping
- Counterculture and Drug Use
- Drug and Drinking Cultures
- Heroin by The Velvet Underground
- LSD: A Primer
- MDMA (Ecstasy)
- Psilocybin
- Slang for Illegal Drug Combinations
- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.
Hippie Crafts
- Drive Like A Hippie
- Hippie Activities to do Around a Campfire
- How to Grow an Avocado Sprout from a Seed in a Jar
- Pinto Pants
Music Events
- The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr
- The Beatles Monopolize Top 5 Billboard Hits
- Billie Holiday’s Birthday
- The Day the Music Died
Songs
- Pictures Of You – The Cure
- Break On Through (To the Other Side) – The Doors
- Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
- Masters of War – Bob Dylan
- With God On Our Side – Bob Dylan
- Box of Rain – Grateful Dead
- Knocking Round the Zoo – James Taylor
- Heroin – The Velvet Underground
Feminism
Feminist Movement
- 1913 March on Washington
- 19th Amendment Ratified
- Amelia Earhart to NYT
- Britain’s Health Education Council Poster 1969
- Ecofeminism
- International Women’s Day Origins
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Emancipation From Domesticity
- The Match Girls’ Strike
- Women’s Equality Day
Feminist Profiles
- Angela Davis
- Frida Kahlo Accident
- Huda Sha’arawi
- Margaret Sanger
- Simone de Beauvoir: Socialist to Feminist
Most Admired Women Authors
- Anne Sexton
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Dorothy Parker
- Edith Wharton
- Isak Dinesen
- Marie de France
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sylvia Plath
- Virginia Woolf
Medieval Women Authors
Feminist Literary Works
Feminist Quotes
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