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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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a month ago
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
5 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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5 months ago
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...
11 months ago
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...
Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 months ago
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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a month ago
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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11 months ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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a month ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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10 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
2 weeks ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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4 days ago
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