TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
7 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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TheCollector
American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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8 months ago
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,...
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
3 days ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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a year ago
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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a month ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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a month ago
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
New Event: January 7th, 2025
6 days ago
New Event: January 7th, 2025
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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a month ago
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
10 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
Continue Reading
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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the sucessor of Songhai
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Dreams of Space -...
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 Was the Kido Butai?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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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...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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