Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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a year ago
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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a month ago
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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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...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
a month ago
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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10 months ago
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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a month ago
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
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:
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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4 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
TheCollector
7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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a month ago
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months 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
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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2 months ago
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
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
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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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
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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.
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Betrayed By Culture
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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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....
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“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...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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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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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...
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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 …...
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Moving With the Times?
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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...
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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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.
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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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...
a year ago
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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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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