History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
9 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
2 months ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
3 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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9 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
a month ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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5 months 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
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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3 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a month ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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The Electoral College Explained
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TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
11 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
2 days ago
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
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...
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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TheCollector
Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
2 weeks ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
over a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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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
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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...
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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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 ...
4 weeks ago
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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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
a year ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
a year ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
a year ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
3 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
a month ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Are You Hot in That? A Brief History of Medieval Armor
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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African History...
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...
a month ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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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
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
2 months ago
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
5 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
5 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
8 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
4 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
11 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Lineup Revealed for First Sotheby’s Auction in Saudi Arabia
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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10 Must-Visit Museums in Massachusetts
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
8 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
8 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Trying to Understand...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had...
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Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Is the Will to Power?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
7 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
11 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Are You a Fan of Gothic Literature? 5 Most Iconic Locations in the UK
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
5 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Who Was Carl Linnaeus? (Life, Works, & Legacy)
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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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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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
10 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
2 weeks ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
7 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a month ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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