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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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When Was the First Crusade?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Love And War And Status
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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No Way Out
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Tolkien and Plato
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Dr Alun Withey
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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And the Boundless Universe
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Papa To The Rescue.
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
Wrong Side of...
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Saint or Sinner?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Beyond Stoicism
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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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...
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
3 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
a month ago
The Shire must be brought to heel
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
Flashbak
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...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
11 months ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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3 months ago
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a week ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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a year ago
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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10 months ago
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
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
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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a month ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
a month ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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