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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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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...
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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a year ago
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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11 months ago
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
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".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
4 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
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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a year ago
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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