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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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A Wasting Asset?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Aristotle's Politics
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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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...
a year ago
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?
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Why Socrates Matters
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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What Is Theodicy?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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