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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Classical Wisdom
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Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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The Great Flood
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Eccentricities of Arthur Conan Doyle: Fairies, Apes, and Spiritualism
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
3 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
8 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Colorado
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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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
3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
a year ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
11 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
7 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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8 months ago
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
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TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Podcasts
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
8 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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