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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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What Is the Didache?
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Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Electoral College Explained
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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How Should We Look at History?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
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TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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A Collection of...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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The Threat of Back to Normal
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The World's First Computer
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Collection of...
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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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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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...
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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,...
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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African History...
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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TheCollector
The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Res Obscura
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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How the CCP is Closing China
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TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Patterns in Humanity
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TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 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
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TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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What Is Theodicy?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Patterns in Humanity
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
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For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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over a year ago
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
4 weeks ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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3 months ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
2 weeks ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
6 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
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:
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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a week ago
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
2 weeks ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
3 weeks ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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TheCollector
Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
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....
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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11 months ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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4 months ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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TheCollector
What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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,...
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
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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10 months ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
yesterday
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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