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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Overcoming Bias
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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a complete history of an African monument
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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How Should We Look at History?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Patterns in Humanity
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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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...
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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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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
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7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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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
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
3 weeks ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Flashbak
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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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Trying to Understand...
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a year ago
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...
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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a month ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
a month ago
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
a month ago
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
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2 months ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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4 months ago
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
a month ago
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
TheCollector
When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
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