Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
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TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
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8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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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...
8 months ago
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...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
2 weeks ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
3 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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TheCollector
What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
2 weeks ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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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...
a month ago
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.
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month 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.
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a week ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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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
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
2 weeks ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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a month ago
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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3 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
TheCollector
Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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9 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
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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6 months ago
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 months ago
Flashbak
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...
4 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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a month ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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