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Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
6 hours ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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a year ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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a month ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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2 days ago
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
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”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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