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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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Hey everyone!
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5 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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over a year ago
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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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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Many of the...
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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Please help us not to understand.
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
2 weeks ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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11 months ago
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year ago
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
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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a week ago
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
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
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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6 months ago
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
2 months ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
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.
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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a month ago
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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5 days ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
3 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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2 weeks ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
a month ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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a week ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
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