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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
3 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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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,...
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
a year ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
2 weeks ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
10 months ago
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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What Is Nestorianism?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
2 months ago
American polarisation: part 2
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
2 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Quick Notification
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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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...
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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...
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
2 months ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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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...
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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...
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
4 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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
Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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9 months ago
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
3 weeks ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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