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TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute undefined
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know undefined
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits? undefined
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles undefined
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language undefined
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents undefined
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover undefined
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know undefined
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII? undefined
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi... The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
Who Was Vivienne Westwood? undefined
3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964) Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961. Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples undefined
9 months ago
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans undefined
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick JamesHoare Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks. Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!” undefined
6 months ago
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The First Anglo-Burmese War The First Anglo-Burmese War JamesHoare Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You? undefined
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power undefined
a year ago
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement undefined
8 months ago
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba     Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws? And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93 undefined
5 months ago
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic Zeno of Citium
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement undefined
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them undefined
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa undefined
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics undefined
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions) Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE) undefined
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said undefined
a year ago
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women JamesHoare Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime undefined
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History undefined
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes undefined
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War? undefined
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)? undefined
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh “The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis   We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy undefined
2 months ago
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization undefined
11 months ago
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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...
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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
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life undefined
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know undefined
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion. And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History undefined
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple On the Spot: William Dalrymple JamesHoare Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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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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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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The Value of Wills to Historians The Value of Wills to Historians JamesHoare Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal undefined
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How Did Belgium Become a Country? undefined
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist? undefined
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch undefined
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks JamesHoare Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor? undefined
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema? undefined
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies? undefined
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool undefined
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights undefined
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
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What Is Second Thessalonians About? undefined
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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...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses undefined
a year ago
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France undefined
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World undefined
3 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave! Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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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...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro undefined
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Monsters of Mythology Who Made the Top Ten?
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification In Search of Homer
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide undefined
11 months ago
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118.     Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli? undefined
3 months ago
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature? undefined
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire undefined
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover? undefined
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So? undefined
3 months ago
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists? undefined
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters undefined
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Weekend Roundup Animals of the Ancient World
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review ‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review JamesHoare Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? undefined
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings undefined
4 months ago
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism? undefined
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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...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs undefined
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East) undefined
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales undefined
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes undefined
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“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...
Global Inequality...
The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest undefined
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens undefined
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction undefined
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art undefined
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War undefined
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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.
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans undefined
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts? undefined
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered undefined
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History undefined
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice undefined
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin? undefined
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections undefined
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TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology? undefined
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas undefined
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist undefined
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death undefined
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament? undefined
6 days ago
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland undefined
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal undefined
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933 “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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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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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg? undefined
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man undefined
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines “I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man undefined
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications) undefined
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican undefined
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History? undefined
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations undefined
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus undefined
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed undefined
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines? undefined
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review ‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review JamesHoare Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958) Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."  This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World ...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It) undefined
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit undefined
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule *Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires undefined
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness? undefined
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories) undefined
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520. During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn? undefined
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free undefined
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga? undefined
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II undefined
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir undefined
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A Brief History of Chile undefined
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
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Weekend Roundup The Story of Thebes
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature undefined
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity? undefined
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism undefined
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau undefined
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts undefined
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History? Kashmir: Prisoner of History? JamesHoare Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M. undefined
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The Lost Years of Jesus The Lost Years of Jesus j.hoare Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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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...
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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...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large... For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s undefined
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the... On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong undefined
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness Event News
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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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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million undefined
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas undefined
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth undefined
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61) The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’? undefined
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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...
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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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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name     We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon undefined
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained undefined
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society? undefined
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Teach Your Children .... Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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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...
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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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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer undefined
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They? undefined
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922 “A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens     In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate undefined
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History undefined
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know undefined
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author! Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon undefined
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Socrates and the Soul And the Immortal Soul
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’ The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place  “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life   The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism undefined
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists undefined
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia? Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953) A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s 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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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book “I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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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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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD demystifying an ancient African society
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965) Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s  Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry A Forgotten Genre?
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024 Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression) Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...