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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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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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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
TheCollector
Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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