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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Res Obscura
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a year ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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a year ago
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Classical Wisdom
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The Mystery of the Mind
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over a year ago
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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...
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Columbine 25 Years On
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Dreams of Space -...
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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the rock of polynesia
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We'd also heard that the school...
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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a year ago
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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a year ago
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Dreams of Space -...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Open Culture
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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3 months ago
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TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
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JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
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JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
3 weeks ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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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...
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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3 months ago
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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a month 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
What Was Operation Downfall?
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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a week ago
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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9 months ago
TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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a year ago
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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6 days ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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a year ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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8 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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10 months ago
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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5 months ago
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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9 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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6 months ago
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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3 months ago
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
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