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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Winged Victory
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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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...
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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In Defence of Boring Books
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Patterns in Humanity
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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The Conquest of Space (1962?)
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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TheCollector
What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months 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.
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
2 weeks ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
a week ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
a week ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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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
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
2 months ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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a year 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”
TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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a year ago
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
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
5 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
a week ago
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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.
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
3 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
3 weeks ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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TheCollector
10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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a year ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
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