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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Centuries of Childhood
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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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...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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How to Give a Speech
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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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)...
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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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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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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...
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Birth of Ovid
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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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...
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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...
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
3 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
5 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
2 months ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
3 months ago
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
2 months ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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a year ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Braga, Portugal & 16 Must-See Historic Sites
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a week ago
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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6 days ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a month ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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...
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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7 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a month ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year 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”
Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
2 weeks ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
6 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
7 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
TheCollector
Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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a week ago
TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
2 months ago
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Tennessee You Should Visit
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a week ago
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
5 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a month ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
a month ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
7 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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TheCollector
The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
2 weeks ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
2 weeks ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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a month ago
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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5 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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8 months ago
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