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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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A Collection of...
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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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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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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...
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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over a year ago
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
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a year ago
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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over a year ago
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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A Collection of...
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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...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Classical Wisdom
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History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
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TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Classical Wisdom
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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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,...
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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...
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
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Plato on Political Polarization
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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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
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
a year ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
a month ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Unlike For Like.
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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...
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“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 World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Death of the King of Siam
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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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...
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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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
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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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...
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“’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...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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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
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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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...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
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2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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