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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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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...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
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!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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The Ancient Novel
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
a year ago
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
2 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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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...
2 months 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...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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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....
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...
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
4 months ago
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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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
TheCollector
Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
a month ago
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
2 weeks ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Flashbak
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...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
4 days ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
2 weeks ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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