Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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Ancient Greece and Contemporary Body Standards

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Today’s beauty industry did not invent the idea of valuing people for their external appearance, and the Ancient Greeks’ estimation for what made a fine…

Israel’s “Cave of Horror”

Ancient History, Long 19th- 20th centuries / October 1, 2024 / archaeology, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, Jewish history, religion, Rome

Oh, Biblical archaeologists: you had me at the name the “Cave of Horror”.Last week (March, 2021) Israel announced new findings from a series of archaeolologial…

Marcus Tullius Cicero and His Thoughts on Death

Ancient History / November 13, 2024 / literature, political history, Rome, social history

Ah, this guy.Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE- 43 BCE) — the most famous speech-maker in the history of Ancient Rome — could be whiny, self-important,…

Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail of West Virginia

Big History, Live Reporting / August 26, 2023 / environmental history, U.S. natural parks

These are the views of Chimney Top, a Tuscarora quartzite outcropping at the end of the North Fork Trail on the similarly named mountain in…

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