Tag: history

Video Game Aims For Audiences In Iran, Beyond

Seven Quests is based on 1,000-year-old Iranian poem the “Shahnameh”

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Wonderfully Kitschy Propaganda Posters From Chinese Space Program (1962-2003)

Image from 1962-2003

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Tananarive Due: Selma, mighty Selma

Even without an official holiday, my sisters and I got to skip school every January 15…

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Albert Einstein & WEB DuBois on Race & Racism

Their Little-Known Correspondence

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Ethan Young talks Chinese history & ‘Nanjing: The Burning City’

Dark Horse will publish his historical graphic novel in 2015

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Site Rec: The Black Inventor Online Museum

A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.

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The Origins of Anime (1917-1931)

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Early Japanese Animations

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WTF: Rome Vs. China in “Dragon Blade”

“The most expensive Chinese-language movie of all time”

Arab Science Fiction: Thriving Yet Underappreciated

Was 13th century Baghdadi physician 1st sci-fi writer?


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What “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Might Tell Us About, Contagions, Fear, & Epidemics

Fascinating piece addresses way that racism, xenophobia, and fear shape history…and fiction.

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