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Open Culture
Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple ?si=UQ0XdCH-cVGe26AC With his iconic Super Bowl ad in 1984, Ridley Scott began a tradition of...
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Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple

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?si=UQ0XdCH-cVGe26AC With his iconic Super Bowl ad in 1984, Ridley Scott began a tradition of accomplished filmmakers creating advertisements for Apple. In the years since, we’ve seen David Fincher shoot an ad promoting the iPhone 3GS, Michel Gondry direct a spot showcasing the...
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TheCollector
Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of...
3 months ago
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Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria

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Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of their careers, and what did they achieve on behalf of the United Kingdom? Most importantly, what was the nature of their relationship with Queen Victoria herself?   Let us now step...
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
8 months ago
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Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture

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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration

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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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Honoré Daumier, Portraits des Célébrités du Juste-Milieu At the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, you can see these sculptured portraits of celebrities by French artist...
4 months ago
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Honoré Daumier, Portraits des Célébrités du Juste-Milieu

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At the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, you can see these sculptured portraits of celebrities by French artist Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879). Created between 1832 and 1835, Les Célébrités du Juste-Milieu (The Celebrities of the Golden Mean) terracotta look...
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Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York “I wanted an intimate setting so that I would be able to engage with people while also giving them...
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Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York

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“I wanted an intimate setting so that I would be able to engage with people while also giving them the opportunity to feel comfortable with me. A limousine seemed like a perfect choice.” – Kathy Shorr     In 1988, Kathy Shorr became a limousine driver. A graduate of the School...
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
10 months ago
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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TheCollector
8 Facts About Berthe Morisot, the Great Woman Impressionist Berthe Morisot was an outstanding Impressionist, admired by her male colleagues such as Degas and...
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8 Facts About Berthe Morisot, the Great Woman Impressionist

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Berthe Morisot was an outstanding Impressionist, admired by her male colleagues such as Degas and Renoir. As a woman of her time, she was severely limited in spaces and situations she could depict but managed to get the best of what was available to her. She was particularly...
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TheCollector
The First Liberian Civil War: A Devastating Conflict Following the devastation of the Second World War, Liberia became one of the world’s fastest-growing...
3 months ago
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The First Liberian Civil War: A Devastating Conflict

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Following the devastation of the Second World War, Liberia became one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and a leading example of Africa’s development. However, an ambitious army officer overthrew the country’s leadership in a coup. Transforming the nation into an...
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History? Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?

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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Flashbak
A History Of War Photography “War, is, above all, grief. I photographed non-stop for years and I know that in all that time I...
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A History Of War Photography

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“War, is, above all, grief. I photographed non-stop for years and I know that in all that time I produced only five or six real photographs. War is not for photography. If, heaven forbid, I had to photograph war again, I would do it quite differently. I agonise now at the thought...
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TheCollector
The Adventurous Life of Marquis de Lafayette (Orphan, Soldier, Statesman) Gilbert du Motier, better known as Marquis de Lafayette, had the world at his feet. He was wealthy...
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The Adventurous Life of Marquis de Lafayette (Orphan, Soldier, Statesman)

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Gilbert du Motier, better known as Marquis de Lafayette, had the world at his feet. He was wealthy and had a deep family history in French nobility and military. He could have done just about anything with his life. Instead of resting on his laurels and enjoying the privileges...
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TheCollector
9 Facts About St. Patrick’s Day You Never Knew Though St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, people all over the globe celebrate his feast...
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9 Facts About St. Patrick’s Day You Never Knew

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Though St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, people all over the globe celebrate his feast day, March 17, every year. Generally, in the United States, this celebration follows a standard order: don something green, go to a parade, eat corned beef and cabbage, and drink a...
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights? 'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?

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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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TheCollector
La Dolce Vita: The Enduring Influence of Italy’s Most Iconic Lifestyle One of the most famous and influential films of postwar Italian cinema is La Dolce Vita (1960) by...
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La Dolce Vita: The Enduring Influence of Italy’s Most Iconic Lifestyle

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One of the most famous and influential films of postwar Italian cinema is La Dolce Vita (1960) by the director Federico Fellini (1920–1993). Despite the contrasting interpretations, the expression “dolce vita” continues to evoke the cultural icon of “made in Italy” originated...
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TheCollector
The Hero’s Journey & Classical Hero Archetypes in the Bible The “hero’s journey” is a staple of mythology, narratology, and psychology. The Bible contains many...
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The Hero’s Journey & Classical Hero Archetypes in the Bible

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The “hero’s journey” is a staple of mythology, narratology, and psychology. The Bible contains many examples of this monomyth in its stories of archetypal heroes and their journeys. This includes myths surrounding the birth of the hero, as well as the hero’s inner and outer...
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979 When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979

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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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A Stroll Through Amsterdam’s Red Light District by Huub Prickaert in the 1990s Huub Prickaerts was walking around the De Wallen area of Amsterdam’s red light district between 1993...
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A Stroll Through Amsterdam’s Red Light District by Huub Prickaert in the 1990s

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Huub Prickaerts was walking around the De Wallen area of Amsterdam’s red light district between 1993 and 1996. Prickaerts moved to the Dutch capital in the early 1990s after a client agreed to let him stay in his home in exchange for keeping an eye on his restaurant. Things have...
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record One I bought fifty years ago.
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record

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One I bought fifty years ago.
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TheCollector
What Was Socrates’s Daemon? Socrates, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, was put to death in Athens on charges of impiety and...
2 months ago
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What Was Socrates’s Daemon?

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Socrates, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, was put to death in Athens on charges of impiety and corruption. In his own defense, Socrates testified that his inner voice, often called his “daemon,” prevented impious actions. Daemons are intermediary spiritual beings like...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Up to the Stars, and In to Our Souls
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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Up to the Stars, and In to Our Souls
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024 Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024

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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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TheCollector
10 Beautiful Places in Florida Tourists Tend to Overlook Florida is filled with loads of activities to do ranging from the world class amusement parks down...
3 months ago
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10 Beautiful Places in Florida Tourists Tend to Overlook

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Florida is filled with loads of activities to do ranging from the world class amusement parks down to local springs. If you are planning a visit to the Sunshine State don’t fret, we’re here to help. If you want to take a journey off the beaten path there is still an abundance of...
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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No Meta Status Orgs

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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958 Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958

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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Flashbak
The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American...
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The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974

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In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American director Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner (April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010)) about spy movies. The time was ripe with espionage plots. The James Bond films were hugely popular...
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Classical Wisdom
The Darker Side of Dionysus Understanding the Bacchae
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The Darker Side of Dionysus

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Understanding the Bacchae
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Res Obscura
Post-postal What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Post-postal

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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office

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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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History Today Feed
Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War JamesHoare Fri, 06/20/2025 - 08:00
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Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War

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Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War JamesHoare Fri, 06/20/2025 - 08:00
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Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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Truth in the old myths

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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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TheCollector
How Did Grigori Rasputin Contribute to the Russian Revolution? Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with...
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How Did Grigori Rasputin Contribute to the Russian Revolution?

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Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, and did it contribute to their downfall during the Russian Revolution? It all was to do with the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and his...
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TheCollector
Jamaican Activist: Who Was Marcus Garvey? To some, Marcus Garvey was a visionary – prophet of Pan-Africanism, pioneer of black pride, freedom...
2 months ago
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Jamaican Activist: Who Was Marcus Garvey?

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To some, Marcus Garvey was a visionary – prophet of Pan-Africanism, pioneer of black pride, freedom fighter. His influence sparked black power movements from the Nation of Islam to Rastafari and inspired anti-colonial thinkers around the world. To others, his authoritarian style,...
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TheCollector
Homer’s Odyssey Summary: A Rhapsody-by-Rhapsody Breakdown The Greek epic poem The Odyssey is attributed to Homer and is often described as the sequel to The...
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Homer’s Odyssey Summary: A Rhapsody-by-Rhapsody Breakdown

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The Greek epic poem The Odyssey is attributed to Homer and is often described as the sequel to The Iliad. The Odyssey picks up after the fall of Troy and follows Odysseus (also Ulysses), the king of Ithaca, who fought on the side of the Greeks, as he journeys home. He is blown...
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the...
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10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit

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Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the Civil War and the Cuban exile era. But no city within the state reflects this layered past quite like Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly grew from a swampy frontier town into a...
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Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829 Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829

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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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History Today Feed
‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review ‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review JamesHoare Mon,...
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‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review

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‘Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England’ by Hillary Taylor review JamesHoare Mon, 07/07/2025 - 09:28
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple

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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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TheCollector
3 Key Moments in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 and it continues to be reinterpreted by...
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3 Key Moments in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 and it continues to be reinterpreted by theater directors up to this day. Touching on themes like tyranny, power, and betrayal, this play also shows us that the word is much more powerful than the sword. During a key moment...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Art of the Interesting
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Weekend Roundup

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The Art of the Interesting
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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The end and the beginning of history

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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities

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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968 The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968

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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding.     These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’ The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’

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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place  “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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TheCollector
Neanderthals May Have Made Art, New Research Suggests Centering on one “peculiar pebble,” a new research paper offers evidence that Neanderthals were...
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Neanderthals May Have Made Art, New Research Suggests

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Centering on one “peculiar pebble,” a new research paper offers evidence that Neanderthals were actually capable of creating art. Excavated from a rock shelter in Segovia, the pebble challenges the assumption that art did not emerge until later, after more modern humans evolved....
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment? This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in...
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Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment?

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This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we took the opportunity presented by Adar’s absurd plan to dam a river using catapults to collapse a mountain to discuss the capabilities and...
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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The Wages Of Fear

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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography “Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography

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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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8 Important Norse Symbols From the Viking World While many stories survive about Norse mythology and legendary Viking warriors, these mostly come...
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8 Important Norse Symbols From the Viking World

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While many stories survive about Norse mythology and legendary Viking warriors, these mostly come from later Christian accounts, as the pagan Vikings wrote very little about themselves. But symbols were powerful in the Viking world. They could be used as shorthand for important...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for August

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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6 Developments Which Revolutionized Early Modern European Warfare The early modern period is often cited as a military revolution. Though some scholars describe an...
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6 Developments Which Revolutionized Early Modern European Warfare

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The early modern period is often cited as a military revolution. Though some scholars describe an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary process, it is undeniable that European battlefields of the 16th and 17th centuries witnessed major changes in tactics and equipment. The...
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 4 Key Tenets One of the most fundamental questions examined by most philosophical schools of thought is the...
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 4 Key Tenets

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One of the most fundamental questions examined by most philosophical schools of thought is the nature of existence. According to Stoicism, everything in the universe is matter, created, animated, destroyed, and recreated by divine fire, logos. Consequently, everything is...
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update

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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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History Today Feed
Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01
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Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste

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Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01
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Did a Real Woman Inspire Caravaggio’s Judith? Caravaggio’s depiction of Judith is unlike many of his contemporaries’ depictions of her. Could...
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Did a Real Woman Inspire Caravaggio’s Judith?

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Caravaggio’s depiction of Judith is unlike many of his contemporaries’ depictions of her. Could Caravaggio have known a real-life Judith to inspire him in 16th-century Rome?   The Biblical Judith   Judith was a woman described in the Bible as a savior for her village and people....
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What Is the Voynich Manuscript? History is full of manuscript books, scriptures, and codex collections that are preserved in...
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What Is the Voynich Manuscript?

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History is full of manuscript books, scriptures, and codex collections that are preserved in historical institutions for future generations to enjoy and study. The Voynich Manuscript is unique, because it is written in an undecipherable language, one which has been baffling...
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Technology indistinguishable from magic

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Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius ... and the Fall of the Republic
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Gaius Marius

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... and the Fall of the Republic
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CrimethInc.
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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It's Safer in the Front : Taking the Offensive against Tyranny

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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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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs

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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected. But some things are more connected than others.
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.

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But some things are more connected than others.
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Creepy Happenings at King Henry VIII’s Haunted Palace (Hampton Court) The Palace of Hampton Court, located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is undoubtedly...
3 months ago
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Creepy Happenings at King Henry VIII’s Haunted Palace (Hampton Court)

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The Palace of Hampton Court, located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is undoubtedly the most famous residence associated with King Henry VIII. Over the last five centuries, the palace has acquired an enormous amount of history, and not all of it is particularly...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Weekend Roundup

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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Flashbak
Painted Ants Scurry Over Vintage Porcelain by Evelyn Bracklow German artist Evelyn Bracklow’s porcelain cups, saucers, teapots and dinner service is covered in...
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Painted Ants Scurry Over Vintage Porcelain by Evelyn Bracklow

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German artist Evelyn Bracklow’s porcelain cups, saucers, teapots and dinner service is covered in ants. On some she’s painted a piece of food and then had her hand-painted black ants congregate around it. The effect is fascinating stuff and unsettling. We know that ants exist in...
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
8 months ago
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism

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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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What Happened to Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great? By the time Alexander the Great died in the summer of 323 BCE Olympias had over three decades of...
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What Happened to Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great?

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By the time Alexander the Great died in the summer of 323 BCE Olympias had over three decades of experience at the forefront of Macedonian politics, first as a wife and then as a mother of kings. She was one of the first ancient Greek women to have a significant impact on...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle...
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II

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This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle sequences, the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). I had planned this to be in two parts, but even though this sequence is relatively short, it provides an awful lot to talk...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023

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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880) travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)

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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
a year ago
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The curious case of the missing period

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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs. Please help us not to understand.
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.

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Please help us not to understand.
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Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
8 months ago
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts

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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Religion in the Olympics

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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for July 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon). 100r.co,...
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion Belief in the Ancient World
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Rituals and Religion

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Belief in the Ancient World
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TheCollector
7 Great Historical Places in Hong Kong Once sparsely dotted with small fishing and farming villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world’s...
2 months ago
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7 Great Historical Places in Hong Kong

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Once sparsely dotted with small fishing and farming villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world’s largest financial centers. Walking on the crowded sidewalks among the skyscrapers, one feels particularly insignificant and anonymous. With a population of nearly 7.5 million, Hong...
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TheCollector
Exploring Anselm Kiefer’s Playground: La Ribaute, Barjac, France Anselm Kiefer acquired La Ribaute—an old silk factory in Barjac, France—in 1992. The almost 100-acre...
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Exploring Anselm Kiefer’s Playground: La Ribaute, Barjac, France

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Anselm Kiefer acquired La Ribaute—an old silk factory in Barjac, France—in 1992. The almost 100-acre estate comprises buildings, outdoor art installations, subterranean chambers, tunnels, and a five-level concrete amphitheater. The artist lived at the site until 2007, when he...
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…) These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)

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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges

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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Trying to Understand...
De quoi parlons-nous quand nous parlons de négociations ? Another of my essays in French.
3 months ago
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De quoi parlons-nous quand nous parlons de négociations ?

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Another of my essays in French.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Homer, Heroes, and Hesiod
2 months ago
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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Homer, Heroes, and Hesiod
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Flashbak
Strangely Familiar: Peter Mitchell Paints The Everyday In Colour Film “I had always believed a photograph could be as powerful as a painting.” – Peter Mitchell     Peter...
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Strangely Familiar: Peter Mitchell Paints The Everyday In Colour Film

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“I had always believed a photograph could be as powerful as a painting.” – Peter Mitchell     Peter Mitchell allows us to imagine the stories between his  colour photographer of 1970s and 80s England, particularly the northern city of Leeds he calls home. A self-described “man of...
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Marcus Aurelius' Stoic Paradoxes Contradictions that Rewire Us
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Marcus Aurelius' Stoic Paradoxes

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Contradictions that Rewire Us
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TheCollector
What Was Isaiah Berlin’s Political Philosophy? Isaiah Berlin had a major influence on 20th-century political philosophy that continues to be felt...
3 months ago
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What Was Isaiah Berlin’s Political Philosophy?

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Isaiah Berlin had a major influence on 20th-century political philosophy that continues to be felt today through his essay “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In this work, Berlin examines the tension between individual freedom and collective governance. Negative liberty is about being...
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TheCollector
Prince William Forest Park: The National Park That Trained WWII Spies Just south of Washington DC lies a 15,000-acre oasis of piedmont forest that, despite being less...
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Prince William Forest Park: The National Park That Trained WWII Spies

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Just south of Washington DC lies a 15,000-acre oasis of piedmont forest that, despite being less than an hour from the nation’s capital, feels like another planet. Every summer, the park’s tall trees and meandering streams welcome thousands of visitors, including hundreds of...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy) Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)

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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup St. Nick and Saturnalia
6 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900) Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)

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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Events Listing

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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)

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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Weekend Roundup Fate and Free Will
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Fate and Free Will
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The Story of Cleisthenes:, the Founder of Democracy in Ancient Athens The Athenians were generous when it came to commemorating the founders of their democracy. The...
3 weeks ago
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The Story of Cleisthenes:, the Founder of Democracy in Ancient Athens

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The Athenians were generous when it came to commemorating the founders of their democracy. The 6th-century reformer Solon was held in high regard, as were the two assassins of Hipparchus, Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Even the mythological king Theseus was venerated. Oddly, the one...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
6 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Surprising Archeological Discoveries in the Heart of the Amazon Jungle In the heart of the dense Amazonian jungle, researchers are realizing that what was long believed to...
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Surprising Archeological Discoveries in the Heart of the Amazon Jungle

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In the heart of the dense Amazonian jungle, researchers are realizing that what was long believed to be an untouched wilderness is anything but. Recent archeological discoveries indicate that the rainforest’s native populations spent centuries modifying and transforming the...
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn Workers and Peasants we are not.
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No Left Turn

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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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The Battle of Lugdunum Was the Largest Battle in Roman History On New Year’s Eve 192 CE, the Roman Empire’s Golden Age, almost a century of political tranquility,...
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The Battle of Lugdunum Was the Largest Battle in Roman History

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On New Year’s Eve 192 CE, the Roman Empire’s Golden Age, almost a century of political tranquility, came to an abrupt and violent end. A protracted period of civil war followed as various men sought to fill the void left by the imperial dynasty that died with Commodus. This...
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The Roman Consuls: The Foundation of Political Power in Ancient Rome After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first...
4 months ago
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The Roman Consuls: The Foundation of Political Power in Ancient Rome

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After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls were the most powerful men in Rome. This political position was designed to fill the power vacuum left by the Roman kings but in a more egalitarian manner,...
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Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s “I came up with the genius ideas of being a rockstar photographer. I could still feel important and...
3 months ago
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Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s

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“I came up with the genius ideas of being a rockstar photographer. I could still feel important and literally hide behind a sexy camera. I dropped out of school. I was going to be the next David Bailey, Helmut Newton, or Irving Penn, or even better, a combination of all of them.”...
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899. Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.

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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review) Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)

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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
a year ago
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean

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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain So who does?
over a year ago
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain

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So who does?
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Flashbak
Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In...
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Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour

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Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was often in pubs and bars in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Berlin, Hamburg, Johannesburg, New York,...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’ Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’

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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher? And the Boundless Universe
a year ago
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The First Philosopher?

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And the Boundless Universe
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Golden Age of Latin Literature
11 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray... The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
a year ago
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray Tans

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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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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Satyrs Sparked the Wildest Parties in Greek Mythology Satyrs (also known as Silens) are considered some of Greek mythology’s most iconic and recognizable...
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Satyrs Sparked the Wildest Parties in Greek Mythology

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Satyrs (also known as Silens) are considered some of Greek mythology’s most iconic and recognizable creatures. These exclusively male nature spirits are primarily human with snubbed noses, ears, tails, and sometimes the lower bodies of a horse or goat. They are associated with...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values) Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)

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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
a year ago
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Plato On Knowledge

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a year ago
What is True?
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TheCollector
Embalming Lenin: Why Was the Soviet Founder Permanently Preserved? At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is...
2 months ago
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Embalming Lenin: Why Was the Soviet Founder Permanently Preserved?

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At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body of Vladimir Lenin, the founding father of the Soviet Union. While other world leaders throughout history were embalmed and later buried, Lenin’s remains...
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Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation? Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what...
3 months ago
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Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation?

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Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what they believed. The church in Ephesus hated their works, just like Jesus did, but the church of Pergamum, the third of the seven churches, tolerated it. The Bible presents tolerance of...
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976) Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
10 months ago
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)

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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs.   Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch. I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
a year ago
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.

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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Trying to Understand...
The Long And The Short Of It. Or, in defence of nuance.
3 days ago
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The Long And The Short Of It.

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Or, in defence of nuance.
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962) So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
a year ago
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Rocket Divers (1962)

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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Global Inequality...
Nothing (meaningful) to say Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
a month ago
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Nothing (meaningful) to say

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Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives? How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?

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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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10 Historic Sites to Explore in Lagos, Portugal Lagos is one of the oldest cities in the Algarve, where the Carthaginians, the Romans, and the Moors...
2 months ago
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10 Historic Sites to Explore in Lagos, Portugal

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Lagos is one of the oldest cities in the Algarve, where the Carthaginians, the Romans, and the Moors all settled. Due to its location, Lagos had a significant role during the Portuguese maritime expansion.   However, the city lost its influence following the massive 1755...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor,...
13 hours ago
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households

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This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in...
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Himmler, Hitler, & Occultism: The Nazi Search for the Arcane The Nazi regime’s fascination with the occult has long captivated and horrified people in equal...
4 months ago
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Himmler, Hitler, & Occultism: The Nazi Search for the Arcane

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The Nazi regime’s fascination with the occult has long captivated and horrified people in equal measure. The idea that one of history’s most brutal regimes actively pursued mystical artifacts and esoteric beliefs seems almost unfathomable. Yet, as this exploration reveals,...
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Arthur Wellesley: The Iron Duke of Wellington Who Beat Napoleon Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known...
4 months ago
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Arthur Wellesley: The Iron Duke of Wellington Who Beat Napoleon

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Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which ended over seven centuries of conflict between England and France.   His influence, however, spread...
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The Spanish Armada: Could the “Enterprise of England” Have Succeeded? Over the course of a little more than 20 years, Philip went from pursuing Elizabeth’s hand in...
a month ago
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The Spanish Armada: Could the “Enterprise of England” Have Succeeded?

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Over the course of a little more than 20 years, Philip went from pursuing Elizabeth’s hand in marriage to plotting her downfall. The ultimate manifestation of this plan was the Spanish Armada, whose mission was to link up with Spanish troops in the Netherlands and ferry them...
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Why Is the Bolshoi Ballet So Famous? A Brief History For almost 250 years, the Bolshoi Ballet has remained synonymous with the art of dance. As one of...
2 months ago
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Why Is the Bolshoi Ballet So Famous? A Brief History

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For almost 250 years, the Bolshoi Ballet has remained synonymous with the art of dance. As one of the most celebrated companies, the Bolshoi Ballet has roots in eighteenth-century imperial Russia. Beloved by Romanov tsars and Soviet leaders, the Bolshoi Ballet has a reputation...
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Plutarch & His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece & Rome Every student of ancient history has heard the name Plutarch, whose extensive collection of...
2 weeks ago
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Plutarch & His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece & Rome

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Every student of ancient history has heard the name Plutarch, whose extensive collection of biographies of important figures from Greek and Roman history has become part of the standard curriculum. While he was a prolific writer, his most famous work is his Parallel Lives, in...
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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...
5 months ago
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The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill

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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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History Today Feed
‘Strike’ by Sarah E. Bond review ‘Strike’ by Sarah E. Bond review JamesHoare Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:00
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‘Strike’ by Sarah E. Bond review

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‘Strike’ by Sarah E. Bond review JamesHoare Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:00
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Patterns in Humanity
The Assimilation Myth Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
2 months ago
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The Assimilation Myth

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Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
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An Overview of the Qin and Han Chinese Dynasties In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire...
3 months ago
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An Overview of the Qin and Han Chinese Dynasties

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In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The First August Emperor of Qin). The Qin emperor centralized state administration, built an extensive road network, and built the first Great Wall.   While...
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Balder: The Most Beloved of the Norse Gods When thinking of the Norse gods, Balder is not among the most famous: he didn’t even appear in the...
2 months ago
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Balder: The Most Beloved of the Norse Gods

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When thinking of the Norse gods, Balder is not among the most famous: he didn’t even appear in the Marvel movies! But in Norse mythology, Balder was the most beloved of the gods. Son of Odin the All-Father and his wife Frigg, it was Balder, not Thor, who was the prince of Asgard....
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Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
7 months ago
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos

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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh.   When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Motherhood Through the Ages: Depictions of Breastfeeding in Art Breastfeeding has been depicted in art throughout the centuries, forming a visual representation of...
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Motherhood Through the Ages: Depictions of Breastfeeding in Art

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Breastfeeding has been depicted in art throughout the centuries, forming a visual representation of women’s lived experiences concerning religion and societal expectations. Ancient civilizations focused on motherhood through the symbolic use of religious figures, such as Isis in...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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TheCollector
Understanding Picasso’s Cubism: An In-Depth Guide In the early twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque revolutionized modern painting by...
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Understanding Picasso’s Cubism: An In-Depth Guide

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In the early twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque revolutionized modern painting by inventing the art movement of Cubism. Cubism relied on intellect rather than on emotions and dissected physical spaces and objects into collections of overlapping flat planes....
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French And some bits and pieces.
10 months ago
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Another Of My Essays in French

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And some bits and pieces.
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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader April 23, 1962 I am having fun sending out an issue of My Weekly Reader every week to you. This week is the April...
3 weeks ago
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My Weekly Reader April 23, 1962

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I am having fun sending out an issue of My Weekly Reader every week to you. This week is the April 23, 1962 issue and "Flying wings." Just for fun, here is your "silent reading quiz." Try not to make any noise while you read and see how you do.
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Flashbak
The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998 “I didn’t get TACO BELL tattooed on my knuckles for nothing!” – The Decline of Western Civilisation...
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The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998

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“I didn’t get TACO BELL tattooed on my knuckles for nothing!” – The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998     Directed by Penelope Spheeris in 1998, The Decline of Western Civilization III chronicles the punk lifestyle of teenagers  living in squats or on the streets in Los...
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
a year ago
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise

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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
5 months ago
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People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s

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Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there.     In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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How Every Empire Falls

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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Open Culture
Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without... Image by Kenneth Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history...
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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)

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Image by Kenneth Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history works. Some, like German thinker G.W.F. Hegel, have thought of progress as inevitable. Others have embraced a more static view, full of “Great Men” and an immutable natural...
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Flashbak
At The Beach In Los Angeles, 1975 – 1988 “I think that part of what these pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of...
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At The Beach In Los Angeles, 1975 – 1988

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“I think that part of what these pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of a place and what, when we get there, that place turns out to be.” – Tod Papageorge, at the beach      Looking at Tod Papageorge’s photographs of Los Angeles beachgoers in the 1970s...
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books! Plus... Merch!
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Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!

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Plus... Merch!
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Classical Wisdom
ALL HAIL CAESAR??? Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
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ALL HAIL CAESAR???

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Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
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TheCollector
4 Aboriginal Leaders of the Tasmanian Black War The Black War (1824-1832), the establishment of the Black Line in 1830, and the forced removal of...
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4 Aboriginal Leaders of the Tasmanian Black War

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The Black War (1824-1832), the establishment of the Black Line in 1830, and the forced removal of Aboriginal people to Flinders Island and Oyster Cove almost eradicated Aboriginal culture in what is now Tasmania, the island that, during the Colonial Period, was known as Van...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for January

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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TheCollector
Do Apes Ponder an Afterlife? A Philosophical View The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children...
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Do Apes Ponder an Afterlife? A Philosophical View

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The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children like us, and can use tools like us. But do they think like us too? A major difference between apes (e.g., gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees) and humans is the use of language....
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust? Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
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What Culture Can You Trust?

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Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
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Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s “As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm   Dorothy Bohm...
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s

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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm   Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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TheCollector
Picasso’s 12 Most Famous Works: Iconic Pieces to Know Pablo Picasso had a long and prolific career that lasted more than seventy years. He manipulated...
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Picasso’s 12 Most Famous Works: Iconic Pieces to Know

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Pablo Picasso had a long and prolific career that lasted more than seventy years. He manipulated mediums, forms, and genres, never seizing his experimentations and never settling in one style for too long. From traditional realistic painting, he moved to Post-Impressionism and...
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TheCollector
The Celts & Celtic Mythology in Popular Culture Historic cultures often inspire modern artists and are reimagined for consumption as popular...
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The Celts & Celtic Mythology in Popular Culture

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Historic cultures often inspire modern artists and are reimagined for consumption as popular culture. The Celts are no exception. While attempts at genuine historical portrayals of Celtic history and culture are rare, the recent television series Brittania being a notable...
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TheCollector
Why Was Sicily Known as the Crossroads of the Mediterranean? Intersection. Junction. Link. These words aptly describe Sicily’s crossroad role in the...
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Why Was Sicily Known as the Crossroads of the Mediterranean?

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Intersection. Junction. Link. These words aptly describe Sicily’s crossroad role in the Mediterranean Sea. Given Sicily’s location, empires, cultures, and trade routes crisscrossed this strategically located island.   Why Was Sicily a Strategic Hub in the Mediterranean?  ...
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Classical Wisdom
Less than ONE Week Left In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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Less than ONE Week Left

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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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TheCollector
How Did The Spanish Civil War Affect Surrealism? In 1936, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War forced thousands of Spaniards to flee their country,...
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How Did The Spanish Civil War Affect Surrealism?

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In 1936, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War forced thousands of Spaniards to flee their country, unsure if they ever could come back. Back home, the troops of Francisco Franco murdered tens of thousands and imposed conservative oppressive laws. Surrealist artists, usually...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for December

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Wrong Side of...
Welcome to the hub What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
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Welcome to the hub

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What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
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TheCollector
Don Quixote: Was the First Modern Novel Born in Captivity? First published in 1605, Don Quixote is considered by many to be the first modern novel. Because of...
4 months ago
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Don Quixote: Was the First Modern Novel Born in Captivity?

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First published in 1605, Don Quixote is considered by many to be the first modern novel. Because of this, it is still widely read and beloved over 400 years later. However, the daunting nature and outdated language of the massive text preclude many from having more than a passing...
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets... For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics

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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75 In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75

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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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Antarctic Snow Cruiser

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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Classical Wisdom
The Tyrant Who Birthed a Republic Tarquin the Proud: Rome’s Final King
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The Tyrant Who Birthed a Republic

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Tarquin the Proud: Rome’s Final King
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936 Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936

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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963) After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age.  Even if there...
7 months ago
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)

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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age.  Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe

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Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and parts of Italy. Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together against his French,...
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TheCollector
7 Must-See Paintings by Edvard Munch The most famous of all Norwegian painters, Edvard Munch, is well-known for his dark and often...
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7 Must-See Paintings by Edvard Munch

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The most famous of all Norwegian painters, Edvard Munch, is well-known for his dark and often disturbing Expressionist works painted in screaming bold colors. He was a nervous man with poor health, prone to sudden disturbances and exaggerated emotional responses. Illness, both...
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TheCollector
6 Famous Land Artists You Should Know Land Art, also known as Earth Art, is a name applied to artworks that operate within the natural...
3 months ago
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6 Famous Land Artists You Should Know

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Land Art, also known as Earth Art, is a name applied to artworks that operate within the natural realm rather than in artistic studios, using earth, stones, and other natural materials. In some ways, Land Art was a category of art rather than a coherent movement. Artists who...
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables

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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
6 months ago
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Weekend Roundup

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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 5 World Heritage Sites in the Philippines? The Philippines is one of the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. Connecting 7640 islands, it...
4 months ago
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What Are the Top 5 World Heritage Sites in the Philippines?

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The Philippines is one of the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. Connecting 7640 islands, it is a canvas where nature has painted some of its most magnificent wonders. With a history spanning hundreds of years, the country attracts tourists from all over the world for its...
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Open Culture
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...
6 months ago
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Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates

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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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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside The Shire must be brought to heel
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The War on the Countryside

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The Shire must be brought to heel
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CrimethInc.
May Day Means Resistance : A Call to Take Action on May First This May Day, gather in defiance of tyranny and oppression. Gather to create communities based in...
3 months ago
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May Day Means Resistance : A Call to Take Action on May First

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This May Day, gather in defiance of tyranny and oppression. Gather to create communities based in solidarity and mutual aid. Gather with everyone who wants a better life. Gather to honor those who fought before us. Gather to show that another world is possible. As May Day 2025...
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Hidden History
The First Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker The first backpacker to thru-hike the entire 2100-mile Appalachian Trail in one trip was a troubled...
4 months ago
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The First Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker

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The first backpacker to thru-hike the entire 2100-mile Appalachian Trail in one trip was a troubled WW2 veteran who did it as a kind of therapy. For most of human history, people got around from one place to another by walking. Although Rome pioneered an extensive network of...
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History Today Feed
The Fall of Saigon The Fall of Saigon JamesHoare Wed, 04/23/2025 - 09:51
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The Fall of Saigon

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The Fall of Saigon JamesHoare Wed, 04/23/2025 - 09:51
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965) Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)

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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s  Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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TheCollector
The Real Robin Hoods: Two Criminal Gangs in Medieval England The first written stories about Robin Hood emerged in the late 14th century, although they likely...
2 months ago
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The Real Robin Hoods: Two Criminal Gangs in Medieval England

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The first written stories about Robin Hood emerged in the late 14th century, although they likely stem from an older oral tradition. There are multiple theories as to where the tradition came from, but it may have been partly inspired by turmoil in the earlier part of the century...
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TheCollector
How Did James VI and I React to the Scottish Reformation? We know King James I of England primarily through his name being attached to the King James Version...
3 months ago
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How Did James VI and I React to the Scottish Reformation?

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We know King James I of England primarily through his name being attached to the King James Version of the Holy Bible, which was printed in 1611. Before he was James I of England, he was James VI of Scotland, enthroned there in 1567. He was a Protestant King, but also believed in...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024 Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024

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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Hidden History
Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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Classical Wisdom
The Colosseum Rome's Iconic Arena
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The Colosseum

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Rome's Iconic Arena
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TheCollector
Hallstatt Culture: What Do We Know About the Earliest Celtic Culture? The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This...
3 months ago
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Hallstatt Culture: What Do We Know About the Earliest Celtic Culture?

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The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This period was preceded by the Central European Urnfield and Tumulus cultures of the late and middle European Bronze Age. Neither are commonly accepted as “Celtic” cultures, but rather,...
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy and the Transfer Problem I recently tweeted on the ineffectiveness of Medicine, and thus on waste we could cut by cutting...
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Futarchy and the Transfer Problem

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I recently tweeted on the ineffectiveness of Medicine, and thus on waste we could cut by cutting back on it.
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TheCollector
What Role Did the Métis Play in the Depletion of Bison Herds? In the 19th century, the Métis hunted bison for food and economic purposes. The Métis emerged as a...
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What Role Did the Métis Play in the Depletion of Bison Herds?

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In the 19th century, the Métis hunted bison for food and economic purposes. The Métis emerged as a distinct group, with their own culture, language, and political leaders between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, through the intermarriage of...
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Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament .... We-ell, you know ....
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They Say They Want Rearmament ....

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We-ell, you know ....
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TheCollector
How Ancient Assyria Used Religion to Become a Superpower Religious policies have been utilized by monarchies and governments for political gains since the...
2 weeks ago
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How Ancient Assyria Used Religion to Become a Superpower

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Religious policies have been utilized by monarchies and governments for political gains since the beginning of civilization. Few have done so as successfully as the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The kings of both the Old and Middle Assyrian periods provided their successors with the...
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TheCollector
Why Did It Take Two Years for Juneteenth to Happen? The abolition of slavery in the United States is usually associated with the Emancipation...
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Why Did It Take Two Years for Juneteenth to Happen?

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The abolition of slavery in the United States is usually associated with the Emancipation Proclamation, issued in its final form by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Juneteenth, a US federal holiday commemorating the liberation of African-American slaves in Texas,...
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Classical Wisdom
Oh Muses, You Sound So Heavenly! The Myth Behind the Music and the Stars...
2 weeks ago
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Oh Muses, You Sound So Heavenly!

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The Myth Behind the Music and the Stars...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz To Hell and Back!
3 months ago
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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To Hell and Back!
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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No Way Out

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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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TheCollector
6 Monastic Marvels of Medieval Europe Monasteries helped shape medieval Europe in ways that often go unnoticed today. Beyond their...
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6 Monastic Marvels of Medieval Europe

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Monasteries helped shape medieval Europe in ways that often go unnoticed today. Beyond their religious role, they influenced learning, politics, and art across the continent. Of the thousands built between the 5th and 15th centuries, more than 500 still stand; some in truly...
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What Is the Book of Revelation All About? The Book of Revelation is one of the most awe-inspiring books in the New Testament, with scenes of...
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What Is the Book of Revelation All About?

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The Book of Revelation is one of the most awe-inspiring books in the New Testament, with scenes of cosmic conflict and destruction. Yet, it is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. As its opening verses indicate, the book is highly symbolic, which lends itself to different...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads

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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Matthew All About? The Gospel of Matthew had a Jewish audience in mind and, therefore, assumed that the readers knew...
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What Is the Gospel of Matthew All About?

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The Gospel of Matthew had a Jewish audience in mind and, therefore, assumed that the readers knew Jewish customs and culture. It omits explanations of the significance of Jewish elements in its narrative. Though Matthew is based on the Gospel of Mark, it details many events,...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon... Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon and more

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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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TheCollector
These 7 United States Presidents Served in WWII During one of the most turbulent periods in global history, seven future United States presidents...
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These 7 United States Presidents Served in WWII

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During one of the most turbulent periods in global history, seven future United States presidents answered the call to serve in World War II. From commanding world-defining operations to behind-the-scenes support, these leaders personally witnessed the harrowing realities of war....
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TheCollector
Battle of Manzikert: Byzantine Empire vs Seljuk Empire Continuous Seljuk raids and sieges in Anatolia in the 11th century CE culminated in a war between...
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Battle of Manzikert: Byzantine Empire vs Seljuk Empire

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Continuous Seljuk raids and sieges in Anatolia in the 11th century CE culminated in a war between these nomadic newcomers and the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman, Empire. When the Seljuk sultan, Alp Arslan, and the Byzantine emperor, Romanos IV Diogenes, met on the fields of...
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932) Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)

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Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir.     When...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 27, 2025 (On the Limits of Realism) Fireside this week! Originally, I was thinking I’d talk about the ‘future of classics’ question in...
2 weeks ago
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Fireside Friday, June 27, 2025 (On the Limits of Realism)

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Fireside this week! Originally, I was thinking I’d talk about the ‘future of classics’ question in this space, but I think that deserves a full post (in connection with this week’s book recommendation and the next fireside’s book recommendation), so instead this week I want to...
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TheCollector
Agatha Christie: Discover the Woman Behind the Mystery Known as the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie was a prolific novelist and playwright from England....
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Agatha Christie: Discover the Woman Behind the Mystery

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Known as the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie was a prolific novelist and playwright from England. Some of her most-known works include books like And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. She invented beloved fictional detectives like the iconic Hercule Poirot...
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Open Culture
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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The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene

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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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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Hieronymus Bosch: Life, Art, Legacy For most who hear the name “Hieronymus Bosch,” their thoughts go to The Garden of Earthly Delights...
2 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Hieronymus Bosch: Life, Art, Legacy

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For most who hear the name “Hieronymus Bosch,” their thoughts go to The Garden of Earthly Delights or the fantastical figures birthed from the artist’s imagination. When considering the number of works cataloged in museums around the world, it stands to reason that viewers often...
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TheCollector
4 Minor Greek Cities That Changed the World Ancient Greece was never a centralized and united country. It was a network of dispersed...
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4 Minor Greek Cities That Changed the World

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Ancient Greece was never a centralized and united country. It was a network of dispersed city-states, called polis or poleis in the plural, organized into kingdoms and federations. The most famous of these cities, Athens and Sparta, were merely the biggest players in a complex...
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Wrong Side of...
Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe ‘All state authority is derived from the people’
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Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe

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‘All state authority is derived from the people’
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Aristotle Explained The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of...
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5 Quotes by Aristotle Explained

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The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of Plato and a tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle had insights far ahead of his time; his understanding of human psychology wasn’t much worse than modern scientists. Only a quarter...
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Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic... Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show

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Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric The Power of Persuasion
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Aristotle's Rhetoric

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The Power of Persuasion
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TheCollector
How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor? Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part...
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How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor?

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Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part by the traditional Roman hatred of the idea of kingship. Julius Caesar lived for less than two months after he was named “dictator for life,” but after his successor Octavian was...
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019

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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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TheCollector
Who Was Flavius Josephus? The Problematic Chronicler of the Jewish War Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of...
3 months ago
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Who Was Flavius Josephus? The Problematic Chronicler of the Jewish War

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Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon surrendered to the Romans and became a collaborator during the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. He famously ingratiated himself with the Romans by...
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TheCollector
What Were the Political Effects of the Iran-Iraq War? The Iranian Revolution and Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 shocked the world and turned the West against...
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What Were the Political Effects of the Iran-Iraq War?

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The Iranian Revolution and Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 shocked the world and turned the West against the new Islamic revolutionary government of Iran. Less than a year later, the neighboring nation of Iraq, a secular dictatorship under former army officer Saddam Hussein, invaded...
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero

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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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What Was the Relationship Between Assyria and Babylon? The Assyrian Empire grew out of the city of Assur, which was named for the principal god of Assyria,...
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What Was the Relationship Between Assyria and Babylon?

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The Assyrian Empire grew out of the city of Assur, which was named for the principal god of Assyria, and became a significant military power. Meanwhile, Babylon was under the patronage of the god Marduk and was known as an important cultural and religious center in the region....
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Open Culture
This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: The New York Times Creates a Precise Simulation Though certain generations may have grown up trained to take cover under their classroom desks in...
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This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: The New York Times Creates a Precise Simulation

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Though certain generations may have grown up trained to take cover under their classroom desks in the case of a nuclear showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union, few of us today can believe that we’d stand much chance if we found ourselves anywhere near a detonated...
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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How Can We Love Ourselves?

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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings

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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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TheCollector
How Medieval Japan’s Fusion of Buddhism and Shinto Created Shinbutsu-Shugo The religious beliefs of any society both reflect and underpin the daily lives of people from all...
5 days ago
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How Medieval Japan’s Fusion of Buddhism and Shinto Created Shinbutsu-Shugo

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The religious beliefs of any society both reflect and underpin the daily lives of people from all walks of life. When one culture assimilates another, there is often conflict between old and new beliefs. Japan has a long-established tradition of taking elements from other...
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World War Stoppers and God Makers
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World

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War Stoppers and God Makers
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome Ode to the Giants
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome

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Ode to the Giants
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Overcoming Bias
Can Systems Stop Culture Drift? Compared to before writing, religions that had sacred texts were better able to resist changes to...
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Can Systems Stop Culture Drift?

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Compared to before writing, religions that had sacred texts were better able to resist changes to their religious dogmas and dogma-enforce social rules.
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
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Can't Do, Won't Do!

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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Weekend Roundup

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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Open Culture
A Boy and His Atom: Watch The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film What you’re watching above isn’t your ordinary film. No, this film — A Boy and His Atom – holds the...
3 months ago
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A Boy and His Atom: Watch The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film

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What you’re watching above isn’t your ordinary film. No, this film — A Boy and His Atom – holds the Guinness World Record for being the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film. It’s literally a movie made with atoms, created by IBM nanophysicists who have “used a scanning tunneling...
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in Minnesota Minnesota’s history is filled with defining moments that left a lasting imprint on the land, from...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in Minnesota

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Minnesota’s history is filled with defining moments that left a lasting imprint on the land, from its early Indigenous heritage and fur trading posts to the formation of the state itself in the mid-19th century. Key events such as the 1848 territorial convention in Stillwater...
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TheCollector
Battle of Saipan in WWII: The Other D-Day When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from,...
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Battle of Saipan in WWII: The Other D-Day

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When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from, they identified the Marianas island chain as a perfect location. One of these, the island of Saipan, was very well-defended and also contained a Japanese civilian population. The...
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular? Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism

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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally? Here are a few modest ideas.
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?

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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990 We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990

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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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TheCollector
What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it...
4 months ago
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What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of events that helps shine a light onto the so-called “Dark Ages.” However, the Chronicle is more than just a record. In many ways, it is more than a mere...
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967 Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967

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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Flashbak
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars “Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare,...
2 months ago
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Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars

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“Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare, The Three Mulla-Mulgars illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop   Soon after Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891–December 30, 1980) was hired to illustrate a book of experimental...
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The Scholar's Stage
Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones) The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two...
11 months ago
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

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The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own...
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush a complete history of an African monument
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush

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a complete history of an African monument
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Trying to Understand...
The Long Run. The future belongs to them.
6 months ago
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The Long Run.

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The future belongs to them.
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Flashbak
Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.  ...
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls

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American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.     One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of...
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook

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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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CrimethInc.
Survival : A Story about Anarchists Enduring Mass Raids A work of speculative fiction. In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched...
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Survival : A Story about Anarchists Enduring Mass Raids

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A work of speculative fiction. In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched mass raids against the entire anarchist movement in the United States. Police simultaneously arrested thousands of anarchists in many different parts of the country, shutting down...
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What is Love? Daphnis, Chloe and the Ancient Novel
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What is Love?

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Daphnis, Chloe and the Ancient Novel
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023

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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)

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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan

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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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The Man Who Nearly Woke Up. Narrative found hidden in an HR Textbook.
3 months ago
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The Man Who Nearly Woke Up.

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Narrative found hidden in an HR Textbook.
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
a year ago
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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What is TIME? And Dates?

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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors

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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
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Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation

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Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
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The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity Despite its status as one of the most widely known and studied epic poems of all time, Homer’s Iliad...
3 months ago
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The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity

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Despite its status as one of the most widely known and studied epic poems of all time, Homer’s Iliad has proven surprisingly resistant to adaptation. However much inspiration it has provided to modern-day novelists working in a variety of different traditions, it’s translated...
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The Power Of Absent Things. It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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The Power Of Absent Things.

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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Fascinating Medieval Creatures (From Krakens to Dragons) Folk beliefs in the Middle Ages included a variety of fantastical creatures pulled from a hodgepodge...
4 weeks ago
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Fascinating Medieval Creatures (From Krakens to Dragons)

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Folk beliefs in the Middle Ages included a variety of fantastical creatures pulled from a hodgepodge of local customs, ancient tales, Judeo-Christian teachings, and limited understanding of zoology. The sea monsters and demons that feature in these stories range from the famous...
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Rats! The Year of the Plague #2
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Rats!

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The Year of the Plague #2
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933 “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933

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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller     Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
a year ago
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show

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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
11 months ago
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The Sense Of An Ending.

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But right back where we started from.
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8 Works by Michelangelo You Should Know Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the key figures of the Italian Renaissance and art history....
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8 Works by Michelangelo You Should Know

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Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the key figures of the Italian Renaissance and art history. Equally gifted as a painter and a sculptor, he reportedly learned to sculpt objects from clay before he learned to read and write. His most famous works included Pieta, David, and the...
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Disappointment of the diaspora Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
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Disappointment of the diaspora

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Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Does Marcus Matter?
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Does Marcus Matter?
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The History of Georgia: Between Europe and Asia The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has...
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The History of Georgia: Between Europe and Asia

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The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has often found itself at the crossroads of empires. After unification in the 11th century CE, the kingdom of Georgia experienced a Golden Age in the 12th century. Mongol invasion and...
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The 12 Best Places to Visit in Chile for History Buffs Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal...
3 months ago
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The 12 Best Places to Visit in Chile for History Buffs

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Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet continues to influence many of the country’s struggles, it is not—or rather should not be—the historical event that defines it most. With a...
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack Three years late, but historians are always late
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Res Obscura is now on Substack

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Three years late, but historians are always late
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Second Servile War: The Soothsayer’s Slave Rebellion That Shook Rome Even though the revolt of the would-be slave-king Eunus ended in bloodshed and defeat for the slaves...
2 months ago
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Second Servile War: The Soothsayer’s Slave Rebellion That Shook Rome

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Even though the revolt of the would-be slave-king Eunus ended in bloodshed and defeat for the slaves of Sicily, the dreams and possibilities of breaking the shackles the Romans bound them in remained. Very little changed in terms of material conditions on Sicily between the end...
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Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon: A Great Power of the Hellenistic World During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the...
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Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon: A Great Power of the Hellenistic World

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During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The Attalids, who ruled Pergamon, were a curious dynasty. Unusually harmonious in an era known for intra-dynastic strife, they were...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand

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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings

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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Open Culture
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A... Neil deGrasse Tyson may not be a film critic. But if you watch the video above from his Youtube...
4 months ago
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More

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Neil deGrasse Tyson may not be a film critic. But if you watch the video above from his Youtube channel StarTalk Plus, you’ll see that — to use one of his own favorite locutions — he loves him a good science fiction movie. Given his professional credentials as an astrophysicist...
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Open Culture
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the...
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Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder

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In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yale, now at U. Toronto), Snyder wanted to offer Americans a useful guide for...
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting...
4 months ago
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History

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During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting communism around the world. The issue of US arms sales to foreign militaries accused of human rights violations has been the subject of intense debate in the American political arena...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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How Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Redefined Morality & Revolutionized Philosophy Few philosophical writings are as evocative and poetic as Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Written in...
4 weeks ago
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How Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Redefined Morality & Revolutionized Philosophy

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Few philosophical writings are as evocative and poetic as Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Written in dramatic, even prophetic style, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra is not so much literature—it’s more of a provocation, a vision, and a call to humanity to go beyond itself. Through mystical...
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TheCollector
6 Great Political Compromises That Shaped America The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things,...
2 months ago
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6 Great Political Compromises That Shaped America

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The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ anxieties over slavery and racial equality before the law. As the United States grew in size and influence, the very same issue would bring future leaders...
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TheCollector
What Was the Radical Reformation? As its title suggests, the Reformation was a movement in central, eastern, and northern Europe that...
2 months ago
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What Was the Radical Reformation?

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As its title suggests, the Reformation was a movement in central, eastern, and northern Europe that tried to “reform” the teachings and practices of the established church centered in Rome. Some who agreed with the need for reform, however, were persuaded that the changes this...
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The Diversity Paradox. It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
a year ago
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The Diversity Paradox.

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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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History Today Feed
Swahili on the Road Swahili on the Road JamesHoare Thu, 07/03/2025 - 08:00
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Swahili on the Road

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Swahili on the Road JamesHoare Thu, 07/03/2025 - 08:00
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Koloman Moser’s Beautiful Surface Designs For Die Quelle, 1901 Die Quelle (The Source) is a three-volume series of Secession-style graphic design books created in...
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Koloman Moser’s Beautiful Surface Designs For Die Quelle, 1901

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Die Quelle (The Source) is a three-volume series of Secession-style graphic design books created in Vienna by Martin Gerlach’s publishing house. It features surface designs by Carl Otto Czeschka (22 October 1878 – 30 July 1960), Max Benirschke (1880–1961) and Koloman Moser (30...
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Classical Wisdom
The Myths of History Facts, Fiction, and Hollywood
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The Myths of History

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Facts, Fiction, and Hollywood
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Weekend Roundup Olympics Special
11 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Olympics Special
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient Novel
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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The Ancient Novel
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Flashbak
‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994 In 1994, the graffiti on the wall that ran along the Riverside Path in London’s Thamesmead told...
3 months ago
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‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994

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In 1994, the graffiti on the wall that ran along the Riverside Path in London’s Thamesmead told everyone that “GOLDFISH ARE WANKERS”.  We’ve seen “LESBIAN TURDS“, learned that “Cats like plain Crisps” and that you can “FREE KUWAIT WITH TIGER TOKENS“, but this is the first...
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Open Culture
How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937 Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most...
4 months ago
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How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937

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Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most neutral imaginable observer, the known examples of the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 paintings and other works of art he produced in his early adulthood would hardly evidence astonishing...
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A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Saturday Night Live’s Iconic Studio To help celebrate SNL’s 50th anniversary, Architectural Digest has released a new video featuring...
4 months ago
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A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Saturday Night Live’s Iconic Studio

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To help celebrate SNL’s 50th anniversary, Architectural Digest has released a new video featuring Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman, and Ego Nwodim giving a tour of the Saturday Night Live set. The show has been broadcasting live from Studio 8H, located at 30 Rockefeller, since SNL...
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Crime in the USA

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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
a year ago
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Genes and social stratification

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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922 ‘The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” – Anaïs Nin     Published in 1922 with illustrations...
2 months ago
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David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922

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‘The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” – Anaïs Nin     Published in 1922 with illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud, Ralph Bergengren’s David the Dreamer: His Book of Dreams tells the story of a boy’s dreams for his pet dog Fido’s third birthday. David finds himself in a...
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What Is the Story Behind Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night”? One of the first works that come to mind when thinking about Van Gogh is his signature ink-blue sky...
2 months ago
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What Is the Story Behind Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night”?

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One of the first works that come to mind when thinking about Van Gogh is his signature ink-blue sky dotted with dazzling stars. Not content with painting a traditional night scene in austere dark paints, Van Gogh used color, movement, and contrast to bring life into his Café...
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What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs What if the myths you know are hiding deeper truths? For thousands of years, Odysseus—the legendary...
3 weeks ago
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What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs

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What if the myths you know are hiding deeper truths? For thousands of years, Odysseus—the legendary king of Ithaca and hero of Homer’s Odyssey—has captured the imaginations of people worldwide. Now, thanks to modern archaeological discoveries on the storied Greek island, the gap...
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Open Culture
Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet Union – Sergei...
3 months ago
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Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Movie Camera: The 8th Best Film Ever Made

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Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet Union – Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Lev Kuleshov – Dziga Vertov (né Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 1896–1954) was the most radical. Whereas Eisenstein – as seen in that film school standard...
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for...
3 months ago
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France

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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for their universal value to humanity. Spanning continents, these sites include ancient ruins, architectural marvels, sacred landscapes, and natural wonders, each telling a unique...
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TheCollector
How the Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) Ended the Tokugawa Shogunate After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish...
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How the Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) Ended the Tokugawa Shogunate

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After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic relations, Japanese society was riven by divisions between modernizers and traditionalists. The modernizers eventually triumphed in the Meiji Restoration of 1868,...
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TheCollector
10 Oldest Skyscrapers Around the World Skyscrapers weren’t always the shimmering glass-and-steel giants we know today. In the late 19th...
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10 Oldest Skyscrapers Around the World

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Skyscrapers weren’t always the shimmering glass-and-steel giants we know today. In the late 19th century, the idea of building upward wasn’t just a necessity. It was a statement. Cities were swelling, land was expensive, and new engineering feats made it possible to defy...
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce [NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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The 1914 Christmas Truce

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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Should We Own Stuff?

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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Tracing the Roots of Shaolin Kung Fu Back to Ancient China Shaolin kung fu, or Shaolinquan is one of the oldest extant styles of martial arts and one of the...
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Tracing the Roots of Shaolin Kung Fu Back to Ancient China

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Shaolin kung fu, or Shaolinquan is one of the oldest extant styles of martial arts and one of the most influential. It has existed since the 6th century CE as a means of self-defense and exercise for Buddhist monks. Over time it spread throughout Eastern Asia. Even many modern...
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Henry VII: The Forgotten Tudor Founder The Tudors (1485-1603) were one of the most successful, and arguably the most colorful, dynasties to...
3 months ago
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Henry VII: The Forgotten Tudor Founder

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The Tudors (1485-1603) were one of the most successful, and arguably the most colorful, dynasties to rule England, Wales, and Ireland before the union with Scotland that later produced the UK. The exploits of Henry VIII, Mary, and Elizabeth I still fascinate historians and the...
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9 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Louisiana Louisiana’s history is layered with colonization, rebellion, resilience, and culture. From the...
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9 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Louisiana

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Louisiana’s history is layered with colonization, rebellion, resilience, and culture. From the founding of Natchitoches in 1714 to the state’s pivotal roles in the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, its legacy runs deep. Key sites like Fort St. Jean Baptiste,...
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TheCollector
Wild Bill Hickok: The Legendary Lawman of the Wild West Wild Bill Hickok’s life story was subject to huge amounts of exaggeration. His deeds were told and...
2 months ago
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Wild Bill Hickok: The Legendary Lawman of the Wild West

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2 months ago
Wild Bill Hickok’s life story was subject to huge amounts of exaggeration. His deeds were told and retold in grandiose style to adoring audiences obsessed with tales of larger-than-life characters and their wild adventures.   Hickok, however, hardly needed the exaggeration. He...
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Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
6 months ago
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Toward More Direct Signals

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As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
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Open Culture
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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A 1933 Profile of Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”

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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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TheCollector
8 Myths About the Greek God Ares Ares was the Greek god of war and battle frenzy. He numbered among the twelve Olympian gods who...
2 weeks ago
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8 Myths About the Greek God Ares

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Ares was the Greek god of war and battle frenzy. He numbered among the twelve Olympian gods who ruled over the cosmos. While his sister Athena was a goddess of war, representing strategy and temperance, Ares represented battle lust and the horrors of war. He was often followed...
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