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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Dreams of Space -...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Arguing with the Dead
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TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Free French Bombers Over France
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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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:...
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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...
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Is Theodicy?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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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...
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
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a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Classical Wisdom
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Do people actually disagree that much?
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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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...
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 months ago
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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4 months ago
Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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‘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
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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a year ago
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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11 months ago
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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9 months ago
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