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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
10 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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...
11 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
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
2 weeks ago
The future belongs to them.
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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a year ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
a month ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
a year ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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 month 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...
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
3 weeks ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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8 months ago
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'?
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
9 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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6 months ago
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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8 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
12 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
The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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a year ago
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...
2 months ago
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
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
a month ago
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
5 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
3 weeks ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
TheCollector
What Was Operation Downfall?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
7 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
6 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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4 days ago
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
a month ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
2 months ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
a week ago
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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a month ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
11 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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3 months ago
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
12 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
3 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
12 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
4 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
5 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
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