Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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How Did Socrates Die?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Monsters and Myths
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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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...
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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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...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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...
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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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.
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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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...
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Classical Wisdom
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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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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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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No Women Allowed?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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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...
7 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...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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3 months ago
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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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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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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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.
TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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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
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