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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Hundred Rabbits
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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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...
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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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...
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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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...
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The KGB After Stalin
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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...
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Blast Off (1973)
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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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...
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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...
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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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...
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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...
TheCollector
Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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A Collection of...
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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...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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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...
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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
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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