Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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TheCollector
What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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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
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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TheCollector
Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
Seats Still Available
3 days ago
TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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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
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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How important are dreams?
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Hundred Rabbits
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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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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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Fall of a Republic
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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Keeping it in the Family
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Useless in Gaza
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a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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The Life of Plato
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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