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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Does Donald J.
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Ode to the Giants
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What Is Solipsism?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Important Notice
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Wrong Side of...
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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The Electoral College Explained
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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The Secret Life of Latin
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Story of Thebes
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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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,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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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
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
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a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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Love, love, love
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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