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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
6 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 months ago
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a week ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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TheCollector
9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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7 months ago
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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...
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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...
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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11 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
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans
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TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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7 months ago
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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a year ago
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...
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
11 months ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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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.
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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