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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Moving With the Times?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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What Languages Are on the Verge of Disappearing?
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
2 months ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a month ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
7 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
a year ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
over a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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8 months ago
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
2 months ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
2 months ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
TheCollector
What Is Panpsychism?
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TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 months ago
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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6 months ago
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
4 days ago
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
10 months ago
You don't need to know that.
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
2 months ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
a month ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
11 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
3 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
8 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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2 months ago
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
3 weeks ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
2 months ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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