African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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2 days ago
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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9 months ago
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.
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
a week ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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TheCollector
Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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TheCollector
What Is Russian Futurism?
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TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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TheCollector
Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
4 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
6 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
12 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
a month ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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a year ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
a month ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year 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
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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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...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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TheCollector
10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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6 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
a month ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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...
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
2 months ago
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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4 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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2 months ago
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
a week ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
Flashbak
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...
10 months ago
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...
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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a year ago
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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a year 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?
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
3 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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a month ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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No Way Out
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“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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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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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...
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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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...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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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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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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the promise of pancakes
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Who Was Eusebius?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Who Was George Hodel?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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