TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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TheCollector
What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
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Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
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4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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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
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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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...
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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
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
a year ago
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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TheCollector
4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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2 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
2 weeks ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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a year ago
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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a week ago
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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...
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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a month ago
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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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...
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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...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Do You Listen Well?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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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...
3 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...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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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...
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
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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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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