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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
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Another of my essays in French.
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
2 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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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...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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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
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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What Is Populism?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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...
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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