Dreams of Space -...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Many of the...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Welcome To Holy Land USA: Inside America’s Jerusalem, 1980
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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TheCollector
What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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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
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
2 weeks ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Overcoming Bias
Fear Change
Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that...
4 days ago
Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that change with context.
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...
8 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
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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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...
3 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...
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
a week ago
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
4 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
3 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
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...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
3 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
5 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
a month ago
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
TheCollector
What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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TheCollector
The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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a year ago
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
2 months ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
2 weeks ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
3 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
2 months ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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11 months ago