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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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3 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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11 months ago
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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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...
5 days 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...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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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
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
2 weeks ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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