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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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The Electoral College Explained
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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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)...
9 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...
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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.
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
a month ago
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
5 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
2 weeks ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
3 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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5 days ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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TheCollector
The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
2 weeks ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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