TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
8 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
3 weeks ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
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
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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2 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
2 weeks ago
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”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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TheCollector
What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
Registration *Now* Open
10 months ago
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 weeks ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
a month ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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a year ago
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
a week ago
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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a week ago
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
3 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
3 weeks ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
12 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Flashbak
Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
2 days ago
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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6 days ago
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
6 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
a month ago
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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2 months ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
a week ago
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
2 months ago
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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12 months ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
5 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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a year ago
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
11 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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5 months ago
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...
2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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9 months ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
4 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
5 months ago
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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10 months ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
a year ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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8 months ago
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
a week ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
a month ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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a year ago
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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11 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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5 months ago
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
6 days ago
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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