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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Philosopher Kings
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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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...
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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...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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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...
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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...
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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...
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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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)
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
2 weeks ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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3 weeks ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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3 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
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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a year ago
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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a year ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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a week ago
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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a year ago
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 days ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
4 days ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
a month ago
The Shire must be brought to heel
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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9 months ago
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
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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