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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Trying to Understand...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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weird medieval guys
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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What Is Voguing?
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Open Culture
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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But the future worries me.
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Greek Theater and Gender
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
4 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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...
a month 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...
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
4 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
a year ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
2 weeks ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
3 hours ago
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
11 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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