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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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5 months ago
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
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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4 weeks ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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a month ago
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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a month ago
TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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a week ago
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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a week ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
a month ago
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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a week ago
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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a week ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
11 months ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
a month ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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10 months ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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2 months ago
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
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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yesterday
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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9 months ago
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