TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
2 months ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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10 months ago
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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3 weeks ago
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
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
2 weeks ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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a year ago
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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6 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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12 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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7 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
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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a year ago
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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2 days ago
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
4 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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...
4 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
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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a year ago
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
4 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
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.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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a year ago
Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
3 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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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
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
11 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
5 days ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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