Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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 Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What Was the First Written Language?
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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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?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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12 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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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...
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Flashbak
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...
a month ago
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. ...
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
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
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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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
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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a month 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
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
a month ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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a year ago
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
3 weeks ago
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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What Is Voguing?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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a year ago
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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11 months ago
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 months ago
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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3 months ago
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
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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...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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3 months ago
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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5 months ago
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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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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4 months ago
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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8 months ago
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 months ago
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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5 months ago
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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4 weeks ago
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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a year ago
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 months ago
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
a month ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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5 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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11 months ago
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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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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a year ago
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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a year ago
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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10 months ago
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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a month ago
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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a year ago
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 months ago
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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a month ago
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
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