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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Dr Alun Withey
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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j.hoare
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
a month ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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a month ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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a year ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year 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
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
a month ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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a month ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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5 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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