Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
Seats Still Available
3 days ago
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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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?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
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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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
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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...
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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...
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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a year ago
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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3 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 months ago
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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TheCollector
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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a month ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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3 weeks ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
5 hours ago
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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a year ago
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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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
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