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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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The life of Maynard K.
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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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...
4 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...
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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TheCollector
Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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11 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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