TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
7 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
History Today Feed
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
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
2 months ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
8 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Acts About in the Bible?
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Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
2 weeks ago
(but forgot to mention it)
TheCollector
Are Supernatural Beliefs Real?
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TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
3 weeks ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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TheCollector
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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3 weeks ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
7 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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4 months ago
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.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
2 months ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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7 months ago
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
3 weeks ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
10 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
9 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
6 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
10 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
9 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Open Culture
Download a 417-Megapixel Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy—A Decade-Long NASA Project in the Making
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the...
yesterday
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a majestic 417-megapixel panorama of the Andromeda galaxy, located some 2.5 million light-years away from our planet. Taking more than a decade to complete, the photomosaic captures 200 million stars, which is only a...
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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TheCollector
The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
3 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a year ago
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...
Flashbak
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,”...
5 months ago
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....
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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TheCollector
5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son
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What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
What Was the Political Significance of the Comintern?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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9 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
a month ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
3 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
3 weeks ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
11 months ago
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
a month ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
3 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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7 months ago
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
10 hours ago
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
3 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
5 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
a year ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
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...
6 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
Who Were the 43 Group?
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2 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
a month ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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TheCollector
What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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TheCollector
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