TheCollector
8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
5 days ago
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
over a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Open Culture
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various...
a week ago
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
TheCollector
What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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,...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
6 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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a year ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
7 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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3 months ago
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)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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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,...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
2 months ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
6 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
Haile Selassie: Divinity or Despot?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
3 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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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...
2 weeks ago
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
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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History Today Feed
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Flashbak
Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
2 weeks ago
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
6 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
a month ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
3 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
9 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
6 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
8 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
3 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
6 days ago
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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a year ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
a month ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
2 months ago
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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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
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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What is Virtue?
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The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
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What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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