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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
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...
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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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...
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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JamesHoare
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
6 Micronations You Should Know
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Ancient Olympics
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Patterns in Humanity
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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African History...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Res Obscura
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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A Clash Of Symbols
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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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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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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