TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Aristotle's Politics
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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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...
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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History Today Feed
‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Rules, Rules Rules
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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The Life of Terence
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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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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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Monsters and Myths
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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The Philosopher God?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Hidden History
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France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
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France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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TheCollector
Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 weeks ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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The Essential Greeks
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
3 weeks ago
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...
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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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
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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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...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
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We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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Overcoming Bias
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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African History...
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TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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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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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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