TheCollector
10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Gods Vs Titans
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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The Essential Greeks
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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The Roman Socrates
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
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a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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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...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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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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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
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The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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A Brief History of Chile
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
2 months ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
10 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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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...
African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
9 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
2 months ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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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...
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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
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
7 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
7 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
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For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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The Nature of Love
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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CrimethInc.
Capitalism Thrives on Death—Death to Capitalism : Two Posters
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we...
2 months ago
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we present two posters—”Capitalism Is the Dance of Death” and “Capitalism Thrives on Death.” Learn how to make wheatpaste and cover the walls of your community in these!
Capitalism Is...
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
4 days ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
2 months ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
a month ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
7 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
3 weeks ago
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a month ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
7 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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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
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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5 months ago
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
a year ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
5 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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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...
10 months ago
‘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;...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
2 months ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
a month ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
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Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there. In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
12 months ago
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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10 months ago
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
8 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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