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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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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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TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
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a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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The Ancient Ozempic
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The Electoral College Explained
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Sex Before Sex Education
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Do You Listen Well?
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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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...
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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12 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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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...
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
African History...
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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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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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...
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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What Is Gnosticism?
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TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
Flashbak
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...
10 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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TheCollector
What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
3 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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11 months 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.
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
4 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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...
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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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
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
2 weeks ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
TheCollector
What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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a year ago
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
3 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Cicero and Leadership
Philosophy in Action?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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a year ago
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6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
4 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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