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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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over a year ago
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Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Summary of changes for December
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Flashbak
A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Dry Toilet Installation
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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How the South Became Republican
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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African History...
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*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Flashbak
Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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African History...
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February.
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Summary of changes for August
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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No Way Out
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
5 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
5 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
9 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
5 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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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...
4 months ago
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...
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
9 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
3 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
7 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
6 days ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
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‘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
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
4 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
9 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
10 months ago
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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4 months ago
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
2 months ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Who Was Tertullian?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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a year ago
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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4 months ago
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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a year ago
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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9 months ago
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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4 months ago
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