TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Global Inequality...
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Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a week ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
11 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
a month ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
a month ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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a month ago
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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TheCollector
How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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8 months ago
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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a year ago
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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a year ago
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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6 months ago
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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4 months ago
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
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When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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a year ago
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 months ago
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
8 months ago
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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a year ago
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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a year ago
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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a year ago
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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a year ago
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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11 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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6 months ago
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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11 months ago
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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10 months ago
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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8 months ago
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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11 months ago
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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10 months ago
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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9 months ago
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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3 months ago
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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11 months ago
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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8 months ago
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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11 months ago
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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7 months ago
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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a year ago
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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4 months ago
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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7 months ago
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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6 months ago
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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3 months ago
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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4 months ago
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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a year ago
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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9 months ago
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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a year ago
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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4 months ago
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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5 months ago
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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11 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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a year ago
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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2 months ago
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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
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
6 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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7 months ago
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