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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Secrets of Crete
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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What Is Nestorianism?
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
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Global power has always been distributed.
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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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
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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