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Reality Would Like A Word.
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Event: THIS Saturday
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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What Was Négritude?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: Causes, Events, & Legacy
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
10 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
10 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
History Today Feed
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
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Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
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JamesHoare
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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History Today Feed
Who Was the Real Henry III?
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
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Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
10 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
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Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:17
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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TheCollector
Why Do Famous Artists Recreate Old Works of Art?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
a month ago
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TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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CrimethInc.
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...
a month ago
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...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
11 months ago
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
11 months ago
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
9 months ago
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Open Culture
The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin...
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the...
yesterday
For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that it opens. It’s how the film is thought of thirty years from now.” It just so happens that Pulp Fiction, which made Tarantino the most celebrated director in America...
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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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...
4 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...
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Andrew of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
5 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
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TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
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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
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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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...
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Classical Wisdom
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The Epics Collection
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
What Was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
a year ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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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.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
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a year ago
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
4 weeks ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Classical Wisdom
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The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
8 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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What Is Ephesians About?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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What Is Second Timothy About?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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The History of Communism in Vietnam: From the 1920s to Today
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
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The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
10 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
10 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
a year 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...
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
a month ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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A Brief History of Chile
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a month ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
11 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
Is the Flood Myth Universal? Flood Myths From Around the World
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
7 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
7 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
2 months ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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a year ago
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
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In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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