Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
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TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
a year ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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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
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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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...
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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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...
a month ago
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
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
3 weeks ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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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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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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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...
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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. …...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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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...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Moving With the Times?
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Moving With the Times?
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TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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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...
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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...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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.
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Inside the Catholic State
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The world that created Caravaggio
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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