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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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8 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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2 months ago
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...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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5 months ago
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.
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
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