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Ancient Anxiety
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Futarchy Futurism
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
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In their own...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Flashbak
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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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
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TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
2 months ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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JamesHoare
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
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
Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
6 months ago
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
2 months ago
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
4 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
12 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
2 weeks ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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TheCollector
The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
a week ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
a week ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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a year ago
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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6 months ago
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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9 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
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