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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
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A book review from the future.
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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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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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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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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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
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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...
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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...
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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The Machine Stops.
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3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Inventing Cyrillic
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Teach Your Children ....
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Aristotle's Politics
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
5 days ago
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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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...
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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a year ago
TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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a month ago
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
a month ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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5 days ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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a year ago
Flashbak
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
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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a year ago
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