Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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...
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
3 weeks ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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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
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
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...
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
a month ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
3 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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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
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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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)...
9 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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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What Is an Antipope?
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
11 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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What Is Gnosticism?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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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...
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
7 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
6 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
12 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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How the South Became Republican
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Res Obscura
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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.
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Is it good to question everything?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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