Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
3 days ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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2 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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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...
9 months ago
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,...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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a month ago
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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5 months ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
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
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
2 weeks ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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The Life of Terence
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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The Roman Socrates
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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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.
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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