Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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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...
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
8 months ago
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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7 months ago
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
a month ago
The world that created Caravaggio
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
2 months ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 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
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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7 months ago
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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TheCollector
10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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a year ago
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
9 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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a year ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
3 weeks ago
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
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