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Dreams of Space -...
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Overcoming Bias
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Global Inequality...
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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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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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
4 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 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,...
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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6 months ago
CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
2 weeks ago
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
10 London Museums You Should Visit
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
4 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
a month ago
But is there anything there?
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
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
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
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...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
3 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
a week ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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5 months ago
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
4 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
6 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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5 months ago
Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
4 days ago
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
a month ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
a week ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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