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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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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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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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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...
8 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...
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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St. Nicholas
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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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...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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What Is the Will to Power?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
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TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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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...
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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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
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
3 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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12 months ago
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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2 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
a week ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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a year ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
9 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
a month ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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5 months ago
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
a week ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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a month ago
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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a week ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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a week ago
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
5 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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10 months ago
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