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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
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Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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a year ago
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Last Chance!
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Dr Alun Withey
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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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)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Classical Wisdom
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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It's All About Them.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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No Women Allowed?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Aristotle's Politics
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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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...
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Trying to Understand...
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
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