TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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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
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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Love and Death
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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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...
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Socrates and the Soul
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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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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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Trying to Understand...
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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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...
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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.
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Res Obscura
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Wrong Side of...
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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African History...
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Summary of changes for February 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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Summary of changes for May 2023
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Summary Of Changes
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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