Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do Famous Artists Recreate Old Works of Art?
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2 days ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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3 months ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
a month ago
TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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10 months ago
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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a month 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...
TheCollector
Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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TheCollector
What Is the Ides of March?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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3 weeks ago
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
3 weeks ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
A History of the United States Supreme Court
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
3 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
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
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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a year ago
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...
8 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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a month 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
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day
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12 hours ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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3 months ago
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
2 days ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
TheCollector
The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
3 weeks ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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a week ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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a week ago
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
9 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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10 months ago
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
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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African History...
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a complete history of an African monument
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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Why the liberal project will fail
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Empress Theodora
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Why Read Modern Books?
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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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...
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“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...
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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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...
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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The Essential Greeks
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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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...
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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...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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