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100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
Flashbak
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...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
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
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
3 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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5 months ago
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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6 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year 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...
a month 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...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
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