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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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9 months ago
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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a year ago
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
a month ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
4 days ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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6 months ago
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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.
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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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
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
History Today Feed
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
9 months ago
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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TheCollector
Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
10 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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What Was Organization Todt?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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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...
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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...
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Summary of changes for January 2023
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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The Life of Terence
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Animals of the Ancient World
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Lost and Found
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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