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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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a year ago
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Hidden History
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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A History of the United States Senate
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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Dr Alun Withey
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over a year ago
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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TheCollector
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Hundred Rabbits
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a year ago
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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When Was the First Crusade?
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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a year ago
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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African History...
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
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The KGB After Stalin
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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a week ago
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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In politics, anyway.
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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African History...
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Overcoming Bias
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Dreams of Space -...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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a month ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
3 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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a month ago
TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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...
History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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10 months ago