Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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The Mystery of the Mind
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Moving With the Times?
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Moving With the Times?
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TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Global Inequality...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Open Culture
The Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials,...
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented,...
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Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve just lost a great American filmmaker. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s features will surely continue to bewilder and inspire...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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A Brief History of Chile
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
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100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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And some bits and pieces.
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Res Obscura
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Most of them are not from 2023
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
over a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Should you meet your heroes?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
7 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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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...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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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...
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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...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
a month ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a month ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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a week ago
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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10 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
10 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
11 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
What is missing?
5 days ago
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
8 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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8 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
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 Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
5 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
a month ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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7 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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a month ago
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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12 months ago
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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8 months ago
Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
a week ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
2 months ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
3 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
6 months ago
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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a month ago
Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
a week ago
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a month ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
7 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
2 months ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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