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j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
11 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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2 weeks ago
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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a month ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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2 months ago
CrimethInc.
Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
2 months ago
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
This is an inspiring portrayal...
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
a month ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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2 days ago
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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a month ago
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
a year ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
Flashbak
Watch The Alphabet, David Lynch’s horrific 1968 short,
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more...
yesterday
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more they’re going to help each other” – David Lynch David Lynch’s 1968 short The Alphabet was inspired by his first wife Peggy’s niece reciting her ABCs during a nightmare then waking...
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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2 months ago
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
3 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
a week ago
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
8 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
8 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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a month ago
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
2 weeks ago
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
6 months ago
TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Museums in Massachusetts
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a week ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
11 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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a month ago
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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11 months 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...
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
6 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
9 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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2 months ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
a month ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chattanooga?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
a year ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
7 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Utah
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a week ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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21 hours ago
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
a month ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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10 months ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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.
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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a year ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
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What Is Affection in Philosophy?
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a week ago
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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7 months ago
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