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Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
3 days ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
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But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
3 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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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...
3 months ago
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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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
a month ago
An indispensable organization
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Inside the Catholic State
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The world that created Caravaggio
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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...
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,...
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Flashbak
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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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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.
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
Classical Wisdom
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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