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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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a year ago
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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2 weeks ago
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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6 months ago
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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3 weeks ago
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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2 weeks ago
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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6 days ago
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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a month ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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5 months ago
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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a week ago
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
4 weeks ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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6 months ago
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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8 months ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
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.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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10 months ago
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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12 months ago
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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9 months ago
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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4 months ago
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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10 months ago
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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