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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Classical Wisdom
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The Mystery of Penelope
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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8 months ago
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘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
11 months ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
Classical Wisdom
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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5 months ago
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
6 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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4 months ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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TheCollector
What Is Thatcherism?
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TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
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...
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
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History and Myth
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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...
5 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...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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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
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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11 months ago
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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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.
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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5 months ago
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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a year ago
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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