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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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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...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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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...
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
6 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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11 months ago
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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