TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Flashbak
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...
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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What Was Organization Todt?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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.
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
11 months ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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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
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TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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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...
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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What Is Nestorianism?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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4 months ago
Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
a week ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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7 months ago
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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9 months ago
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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2 months ago
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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11 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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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
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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a year ago
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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...
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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a year ago
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
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