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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Patterns in Humanity
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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The Birth of Ovid
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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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....
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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.
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
6 months ago
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
a year ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
10 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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a month ago
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
9 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
4 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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10 months ago
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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3 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
8 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
11 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
a month ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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a year ago
TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Romania
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9 hours ago
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
7 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
2 months ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
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...
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
a month ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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21 hours ago
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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7 months ago
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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10 months ago
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What’s the History of Gin?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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10 months ago
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses...
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan...
a week ago
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $199) gives you access to 90% of Coursera’s courses, Guided Projects, Specializations, and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
a year ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
11 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
3 weeks ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
11 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
2 months ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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5 months ago
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
a week ago
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
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Who Was Tertullian?
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11 months ago
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