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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
4 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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History Today Feed
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
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Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
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Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
a month ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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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...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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What Is Theodicy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
9 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Wandsworth Prison Blues
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
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It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
7 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Popular Gladiator Weapons: Tools of the Arena
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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?
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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a year ago
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
TheCollector
Andrew of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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23 hours ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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