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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies? And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
TheCollector
Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review ‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review JamesHoare Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe? undefined
a year ago
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany? undefined
a year ago
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality? undefined
a year ago
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism undefined
11 months ago
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz? undefined
10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review ‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review JamesHoare Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide undefined
3 months ago
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs undefined
a year ago
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula? undefined
a year ago
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t undefined
a month ago
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites? undefined
a year ago
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem? undefined
9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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7 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books China’s Communist Comic Books JamesHoare Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
a month ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke undefined
a year ago
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many undefined
10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste? undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922) “There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS     William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho Fragments of Poetry
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period? undefined
a week ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense. There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Didache? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher? And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day undefined
4 days ago
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy JamesHoare Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End undefined
2 weeks ago
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,...
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10 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...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights JamesHoare Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a month ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children undefined
5 months ago
African History...
The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung? undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles j.hoare Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays undefined
11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water On the limits of empathy
2 months ago
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial undefined
10 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
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious? undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline? Why Do Religions Decline? JamesHoare Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained undefined
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
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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...
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79 Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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11 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar The True Knights Templar j.hoare Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire? undefined
5 months ago
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983 In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review ‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review JamesHoare Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
9 months ago
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies? undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
over a year ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder undefined
3 months ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes. Many of the...
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969 In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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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
What Made the Harlem Hellfighters Legendary? undefined
2 days ago
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything! Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
11 months ago
Open Culture
Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965) Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966) Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art undefined
a year 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...
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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...
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies undefined
8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
a week ago
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate undefined
11 months ago
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
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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
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge? undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block undefined
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes undefined
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927. Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack undefined
a month ago
Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler “Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
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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
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Mother of Rome
10 months ago
TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers? undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World) undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed undefined
5 months ago
Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976 The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus? undefined
a year 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...
2 months ago
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2 months 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...
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“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...
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here? That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting undefined
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor? undefined
6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
a month ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse? undefined
12 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e undefined
6 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue? Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
4 months ago
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76 undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization undefined
a year ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene undefined
7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art ‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art JamesHoare Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants? undefined
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic? undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection) undefined
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932) An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller...
3 weeks ago
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller description: Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
5 months ago
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
2 weeks ago
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East? undefined
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist? undefined
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany undefined
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space? undefined
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Did Surrealist Artists Write? undefined
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy? undefined
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible? undefined
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars JamesHoare Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps! Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero undefined
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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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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review ‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review j.hoare Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Their Enemies The Russians But what about the rest of us?
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When Was the First Crusade? undefined
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What Is the Book of Galatians About? undefined
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics undefined
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take undefined
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race undefined
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate? undefined
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico undefined
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem undefined
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism? undefined
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents? undefined
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass undefined
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes undefined
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew? undefined
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War undefined
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny undefined
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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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...
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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...
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Weekend Roundup Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977 Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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How to Steal From Homer Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era undefined
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal? undefined
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power undefined
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia undefined
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo? undefined
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‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review ‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review JamesHoare Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know undefined
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins undefined
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology? undefined
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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...
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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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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance undefined
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company? undefined
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid? undefined
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson undefined
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise” undefined
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know undefined
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art undefined
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare undefined
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement undefined
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were... You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam? undefined
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality undefined
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King? undefined
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland? undefined
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Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor undefined
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions undefined
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism undefined
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land undefined
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad? undefined
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Tolkien and the Classics Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes." Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics? undefined
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The case for prisons The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam? undefined
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Overcoming Bias
Fear Change Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that...
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Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that change with context.
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition undefined
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture undefined
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What Is the History of the Blues? undefined
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to... We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin undefined
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder undefined
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review JamesHoare Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist undefined
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home undefined
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Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean Take a Santa Pause
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know undefined
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know undefined
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery undefined
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics undefined
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico undefined
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick? undefined
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023 Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit undefined
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story undefined
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