TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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And some bits and pieces.
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
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A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
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TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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What Was Négritude?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
a week ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
TheCollector
What Is Second Timothy About?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
7 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
5 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Classical Wisdom
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Last Chance!
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Classical Wisdom
Cicero and Leadership
Philosophy in Action?
a week ago
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
5 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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a year ago
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
10 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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...
2 months ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
8 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
2 months ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
11 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
7 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
a year ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
9 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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African History...
Join me on Notes
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a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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The Death of Clive of India
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Dreams of Space -...
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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