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And some bits and pieces.
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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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
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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5 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
What Is the Philosopher’s Stone?
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TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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a month ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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7 months ago
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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a month ago
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
10 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
a year ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 months ago
Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
a week ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a month ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
over a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
10 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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a year ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a month ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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a year 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)
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
2 months ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
8 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
a month ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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5 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
a month ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
4 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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a month ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
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
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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3 months ago
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