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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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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.
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
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But is there anything there?
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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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
What Are Conlangs?
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TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year 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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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TheCollector
10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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