TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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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.
Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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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...
TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Flashbak
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,...
9 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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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
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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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...
a week ago
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
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
CrimethInc.
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...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
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j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
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Flashbak
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....
10 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages?
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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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...
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...
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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a year ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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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...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Rituals and Religion
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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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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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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