TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
TheCollector
4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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A Celebration of Virtue
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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What Is Voguing?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Classical Wisdom
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Trying to Understand...
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Who Was Vortigern?
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TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Classical Wisdom
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
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TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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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...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“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...
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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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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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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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...
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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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...
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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...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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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...
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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...
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Catching Nessie on Film
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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When Was the First Crusade?
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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