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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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2x2 geopolitics
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Wars and ideology simplified
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...
3 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.
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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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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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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a year ago
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
Overcoming Bias
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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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.
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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8 months ago
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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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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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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7 months ago
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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a year ago
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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11 months ago
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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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
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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12 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
a year ago
Bringing History to the Future
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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3 months ago
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Early Christianity
12 months ago
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Who Was Vortigern?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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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
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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TheCollector
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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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
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle's Politics
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TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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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
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
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
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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7 months ago
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 months ago
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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How Did Socrates Die?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Flashbak
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...
11 months ago
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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Lost and Found
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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