TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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...
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 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 March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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3 days ago
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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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. ...
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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TheCollector
Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
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...
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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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
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Weekend Roundup
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the promise of pancakes
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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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...
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Dreams of Space -...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Summary of changes for November 2023
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 November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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...
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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,...
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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That's The Truth?
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In politics, well, it depends.
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...
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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...
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A Brief History of Chile
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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What Are Conlangs?
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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