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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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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...
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
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Power laws in criminal behavior
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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The Electoral College Explained
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Most of them are not from 2023
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
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A book review from the future.
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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yesterday
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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.
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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3 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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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
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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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...
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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8 months ago
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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