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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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The KGB After Stalin
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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. ...
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Hey everyone!
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
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Global Inequality...
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A Collection of...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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government in central Africa.
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
a month ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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How to Give a Speech
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
a week ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
3 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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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...
9 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...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
7 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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TheCollector
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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TheCollector
The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Classical Wisdom
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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a year ago
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
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
4 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
a week ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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...
2 months 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
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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