TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Important Notification
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
Overcoming Bias
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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the sucessor of Songhai
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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American polarisation: part 2
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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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.
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
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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...
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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...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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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
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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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
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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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...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
6 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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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...
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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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
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months 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...
6 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...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
11 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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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...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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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...
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
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