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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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Hidden History
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
2 months ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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a year ago
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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6 months ago
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
2 days ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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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
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 months ago
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
4 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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3 months ago
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
a week ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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2 months ago
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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a week ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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8 months ago
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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a year ago
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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4 weeks ago
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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a month ago
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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5 months ago
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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10 months ago
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