TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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A Collection of...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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6 months ago
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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Sex Before Sex Education
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Service to what nation?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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a year ago
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From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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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...
a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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History of the Games
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
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Flashbak
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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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...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Flashbak
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Overcoming Bias
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a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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African History...
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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