Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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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...
TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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TheCollector
Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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a month ago
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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a year ago
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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a year ago
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
10 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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a month ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
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...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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6 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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a month ago
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
3 weeks ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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12 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
4 months ago
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
5 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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5 days ago
History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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a year ago
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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...
3 weeks 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...
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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4 months ago
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
a week ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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11 months ago
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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...
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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...
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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