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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
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Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir. When...
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Res Obscura
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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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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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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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...
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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...
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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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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Travels in the Air, 1871
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above...
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
11 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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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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TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
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in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
over a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a...
a week ago
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a number anchored in science. Rather, it’s a product of marketing. According to a Harvard medical website, that figure goes back to “1965, when a Japanese company made a device named...
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
2 months ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
5 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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7 months ago
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
a month ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
8 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
a year ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture
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TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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4 months ago
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
2 months ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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8 months ago
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
3 weeks ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
3 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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a year ago
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
8 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
9 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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...
2 months ago
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,...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
5 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
3 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
3 weeks ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
a month ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the...
a week ago
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
8 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
6 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
5 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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3 months ago
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
What is missing?
a week ago
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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3 months ago
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
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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10 months ago
Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
a week ago
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
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