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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Essential Classics
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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History Today Review of the Year
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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?
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Mother of Rome
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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History and Myth
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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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...
a month ago
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:
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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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...
over a year ago
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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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...
4 months ago
“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...
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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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?
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”
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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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!
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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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
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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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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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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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...
3 weeks ago
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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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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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...
11 months ago
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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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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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
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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