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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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A Brief History of Chile
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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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...
8 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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8 months ago
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
11 hours ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
3 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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10 months 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?
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
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
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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12 months ago
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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TheCollector
5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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a month ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
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