Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
Patterns in Humanity
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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Unlike For Like.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Dreams of Space -...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Dr Alun Withey
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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, …...
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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A Collection of...
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4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
yesterday
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Summary of changes for May 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 May.
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And what happens when we don’t?
Flashbak
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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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...
6 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...
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Fate and Free Will
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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over a year ago
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
3 weeks ago
But is there anything there?
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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8 months ago
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month 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
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
6 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
Global Inequality...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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a year ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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a week ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
6 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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9 months ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 weeks ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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a month ago
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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a year ago
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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3 months ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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4 days ago
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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8 months ago
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
a year ago
Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
TheCollector
René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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11 months ago
African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
a week ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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11 months ago
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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3 days ago
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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4 months ago
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 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
TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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a month ago
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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a year ago
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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
3 weeks ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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a year ago
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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