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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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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...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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The KGB After Stalin
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Monsters and Myths
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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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...
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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...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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11 months ago
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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4 months ago
Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
2 months ago
In Search of Homer Trip Opening
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
2 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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a year ago
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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a year ago
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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