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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Is Capoeira?
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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,...
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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What Is Populism?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Patterns in Humanity
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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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...
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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Hundred Rabbits
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Dreams of Space -...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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A Collection of...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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Tolkien and Plato
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The Nature of Love
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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9 months ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
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.
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
7 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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...
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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5 days ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
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.
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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a year ago
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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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
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
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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10 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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a month ago
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
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.
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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