TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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What Is Nestorianism?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Philosopher Kings
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
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But who is prepared to admit it?
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
9 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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History and Myth
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TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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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...
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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The Mystery of Penelope
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Trying to Understand...
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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