TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
6 days ago
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a week ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
Classical Wisdom
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The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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TheCollector
10 London Museums You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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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,...
2 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)...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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a year ago
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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a month ago
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
a month ago
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
2 weeks ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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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...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Ancient Podcasts
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A Collection of...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
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the sucessor of Songhai
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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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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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Global Inequality...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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