TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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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...
3 months ago
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;...
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
3 weeks ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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TheCollector
How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
2 weeks ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
2 months ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year 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
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
9 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
a month ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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a year ago
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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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
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
4 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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France Saves Europe.
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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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...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Their Enemies The Russians
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Another Of My Essays in French
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How to Give a Speech
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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What Is Voguing?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Tolkien and the Classics
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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What Is Absolute Idealism According to Hegel?
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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...
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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How to Save Democracy
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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The Pompeii Mosaics
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Patterns in Humanity
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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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...
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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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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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