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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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over a year ago
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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A Collection of...
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
a month ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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4 months ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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TheCollector
What Is Absolute Idealism According to Hegel?
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TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
7 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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TheCollector
What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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a month ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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a year ago
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
a month ago
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
5 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
2 weeks ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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a year ago
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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5 months ago
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
The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
a week ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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.
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
3 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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11 months ago
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
4 months ago
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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a year ago
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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2 months ago
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