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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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What Is Second Timothy About?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The "New" Ancient City
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works
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Gladiator Combat
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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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...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
4 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Socrates and the Soul
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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2 months ago
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
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B-24 Liberators: The Aircraft That Ended the Reign of the U-Boat
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Secrets of the Odyssey
Homer's Homecoming
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What Is the Didache?
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11 months ago
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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World Monuments Fund Lists Moon as Endangered Heritage Site
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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2 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
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
The History of Braga, Portugal & 16 Must-See Historic Sites
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
2 months ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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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
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
2 months ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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a year ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
History Today Feed
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
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‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
2 months ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
3 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
11 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
a year ago
Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Colorado
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
11 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
7 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
3 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
2 months ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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8 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
over a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Cerberus: The Three-Headed Dog of Greek Mythology (Myths & Origins)
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
a month ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
4 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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2 months ago
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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a year ago
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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7 months ago
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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11 months ago
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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7 months ago
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
2 months ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Peter (Simon) of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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5 months ago
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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8 months ago
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Does Free Will Exist?
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3 months ago
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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4 months ago
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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2 months ago
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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10 months ago
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
4 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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10 Must-Visit Museums in Massachusetts
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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5 months ago
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
2 months ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
a week ago
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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9 months ago
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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4 months ago
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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7 months ago
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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10 months ago
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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a year ago
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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8 months ago
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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6 months ago
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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11 months ago
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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12 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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6 months ago
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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a year ago
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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a year ago
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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7 months ago
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
6 months ago
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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a year ago
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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a year ago
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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10 months ago
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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a year ago
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
3 months ago
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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9 months ago
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
3 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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3 months ago
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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a month ago
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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What Is the Will to Power?
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a year ago
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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a month ago
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Is Sufism a Part of Islam or Separate From It?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
a month ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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9 months ago
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
3 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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7 months ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
7 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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2 months ago
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
3 months ago
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
3 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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8 months ago
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 months ago
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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11 months ago
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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a year ago
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year ago
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What Is the Ides of March?
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10 months ago
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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9 months ago
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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4 months ago
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What Is Affection in Philosophy?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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2 months ago
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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12 months ago
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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a year ago
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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7 months ago
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How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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9 months ago
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
8 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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6 months ago
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
4 weeks ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Romania
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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5 months ago
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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11 months ago
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
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...
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
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