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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Overcoming Bias
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Magna Graecia
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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Who Was Julian?
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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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...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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The Essential Greeks
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
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a year ago
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.
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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The Performance is Over
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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But who is prepared to admit it?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Global Inequality...
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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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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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
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...
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
3 days ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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a year ago
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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a year ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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a year ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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