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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
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The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
8 months ago
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 months ago
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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a year ago
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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7 months ago
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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8 months ago
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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6 months ago
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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