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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Summary Of Changes
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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No Meta Status Orgs
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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TheCollector
How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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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
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
6 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
TheCollector
Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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TheCollector
How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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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
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
a month ago
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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TheCollector
Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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a year ago
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
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
3 days ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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