TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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African History...
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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TheCollector
8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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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
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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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
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
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TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
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TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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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
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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TheCollector
4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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2 months ago
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History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
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j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
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TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
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History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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TheCollector
The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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5 months ago
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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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...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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a year ago
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...
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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8 months ago
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
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
3 weeks ago
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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a month ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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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
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 months ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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8 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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...
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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3 weeks ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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4 months ago
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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10 months 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.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 days ago
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
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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2 days ago
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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a month ago
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
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