Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
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CrimethInc.
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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What Is Voguing?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
3 months ago
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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TheCollector
Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
a month ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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TheCollector
Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
2 months ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
yesterday
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TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
2 months ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in San Diego
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The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
2 days ago
Trump as a tool of history
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
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...
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
5 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
a month ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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.
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
5 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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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...
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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What Is Solipsism?
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
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They know what they think.
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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What Is Populism?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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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...
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“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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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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