TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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TheCollector
Was Jesus a Radical?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
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In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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No End Of A Lesson.
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Global Inequality...
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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The Story of Thebes
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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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
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TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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So who does?
a year ago
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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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...
2 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“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‘...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
4 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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TheCollector
4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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4 months ago
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
3 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
4 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
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,...
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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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,...
4 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
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
4 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
3 days ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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