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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Tjaart’s Substack
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
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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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Monsters of Mythology
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Technology indistinguishable from magic
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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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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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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TheCollector
The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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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...
5 months ago
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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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
11 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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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...
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
3 weeks ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
5 months ago
But right back where we started from.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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