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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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In Defence of Boring Books
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Dr Alun Withey
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7 months ago
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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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.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
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JamesHoare
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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The Machine Stops.
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4 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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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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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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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...
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Classical Wisdom
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
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Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Patterns in Humanity
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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4 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
5 months ago
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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8 months ago
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
4 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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