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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Who Was Eusebius?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
3 weeks ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
a month ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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History and Myth
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Global Inequality...
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Does Donald J.
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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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TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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History Today Feed
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 Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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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...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
9 months ago
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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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...
2 months 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
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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