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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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TheCollector
What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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A Collection of...
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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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 March.
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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weird medieval guys
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a year ago
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
Flashbak
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
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9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Classical Wisdom
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Classical Wisdom
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Trying to Understand...
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11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Early Years of Jesus
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Flashbak
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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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...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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JamesHoare
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Classical Wisdom
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Sex Before Sex Education
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
Classical Wisdom
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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How Did Socrates Die?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
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JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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a year ago
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 months ago
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
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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4 months ago
Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
4 weeks ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 months ago
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
2 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
6 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
a month ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
4 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
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