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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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A Collection of...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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What Is Solipsism?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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the promise of pancakes
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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US President or American Caesar?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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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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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Marcus Garvey: A Leader in the Pan-Africanist Movement
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
3 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 months ago
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
a month ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
7 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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6 months ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
2 months ago
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
This is an inspiring portrayal...
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
2 weeks ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
a month ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
2 months ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
2 months ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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5 months ago
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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a month ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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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
TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a month ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Understanding Yourself Through Jung: A Guide to Individuation & Self-Discovery
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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3 months ago
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
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
5 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
6 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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7 months ago
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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a month ago
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
9 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
6 Micronations You Should Know
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
4 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
3 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
3 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
a week ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
3 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
5 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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7 months ago
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