TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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When Was D-Day?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
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a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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9 months ago
“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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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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10 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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A Collection of...
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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What is TIME? And Dates?
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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No Women Allowed?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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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...
9 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...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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11 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...
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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11 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Patterns in Humanity
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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History Today Feed
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Dreams of Space -...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What Is Populism?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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