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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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What Is Gnosticism?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Dreams of Space -...
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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The Last Day of World War One
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
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
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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a month ago
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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7 months 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
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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a year ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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a month ago
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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7 months ago
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
4 days ago
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
2 weeks ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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a month ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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9 months ago
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
5 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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2 days ago
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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12 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks 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...
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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a week ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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11 months ago
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 weeks ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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a month ago
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
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
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
3 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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4 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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6 months ago
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