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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
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The Shire must be brought to heel
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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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...
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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...
TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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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
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Final Call
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Where parents make a difference
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
4 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
7 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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