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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Dreams of Space -...
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
2 months ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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11 months ago
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
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
a month ago
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
5 months ago
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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6 months ago
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
2 months ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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4 months ago
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
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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11 months ago
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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8 months ago
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
3 weeks ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
a week ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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...
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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7 months ago
Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
5 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
a year ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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11 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
2 months ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
a week ago
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
9 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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a year ago
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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.
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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9 months ago
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
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