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TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats undefined
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity? undefined
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation? undefined
3 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released! In their own...
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism New Event: January 7th, 2025
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts undefined
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses undefined
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush undefined
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux? undefined
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name? undefined
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex undefined
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War? undefined
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact? undefined
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside The Shire must be brought to heel
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know undefined
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism undefined
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo undefined
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History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian The Pilgrim as a Historian JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888 The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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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...
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick undefined
a year ago
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....
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung? undefined
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K. A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
7 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend? undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People? Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam undefined
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt? undefined
2 months ago
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony undefined
9 months ago
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895) The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements undefined
5 months ago
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories) undefined
a year ago
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained undefined
9 months ago
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII undefined
a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity? undefined
a year ago
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome? undefined
a year ago
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens undefined
a year ago
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics? undefined
10 months ago
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods) undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That... Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology undefined
6 months ago
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6 Micronations You Should Know undefined
4 months ago
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy undefined
3 months ago
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature? undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible? undefined
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art undefined
a year ago
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens undefined
2 weeks ago
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch? undefined
a year ago
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth undefined
a year ago
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2 undefined
7 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal? undefined
6 months ago
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They? undefined
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life undefined
4 months ago
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man undefined
a year ago
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties undefined
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century undefined
12 months ago
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament? undefined
3 weeks ago
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
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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...
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall? Who was Thorkell the Tall? JamesHoare Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review) Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs undefined
3 months ago
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner undefined
a year ago
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer undefined
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism? undefined
a year ago
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children undefined
12 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things. It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland? undefined
2 weeks ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism undefined
9 months ago
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture? Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn JamesHoare Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962) Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week. Here is a straight history book of an current...
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a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week. Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels undefined
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City undefined
5 months ago
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting? undefined
2 months ago
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism? undefined
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete. You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906 A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles undefined
a year ago
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks undefined
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection? A New -different- Event
a year ago
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism undefined
a year ago
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’? undefined
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient? undefined
a year ago
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II? undefined
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TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
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...
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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
What Is the Categorical Imperative? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures undefined
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TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know undefined
a year ago
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US? undefined
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982 Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks ***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn. In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads undefined
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous? undefined
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition undefined
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US undefined
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Flashbak
Jean And Rose – A Paris Photo Love Story From 1929 In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la...
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In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la Grange Batelière. On December 11, Jean met Rose, 18, at the city’s Saint-Lazare metro station. She lived in the 15th arrondissement, and took classes in hairdressing at the École...
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco undefined
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine undefined
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What Was the League of Cambrai? undefined
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973) For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman undefined
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History? Kashmir: Prisoner of History? JamesHoare Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter? Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army undefined
6 months ago
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist JamesHoare Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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
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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. Continue Reading
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit undefined
3 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952) Mara.  Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952 It came in a...
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Mara.  Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952 It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism? With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons! undefined
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology? Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”? undefined
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Who Was George Hodel? undefined
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’? undefined
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays undefined
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea? undefined
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding undefined
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore undefined
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry undefined
a year ago
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho Fragments of Poetry
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out The Women’s War Breaks Out JamesHoare Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians undefined
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History undefined
a year ago
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient Novel
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review ‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review JamesHoare Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
a month ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae undefined
a year ago
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening undefined
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Summary of changes for December 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects. Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon). Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily undefined
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’ A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln “I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln     The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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hello fujisan It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd  – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali. At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Stock Car Racing in 1972 In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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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...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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captain what is this After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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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...
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