TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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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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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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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...
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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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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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Does Free Will Exist?
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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...
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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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 Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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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...
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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...
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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9 months ago
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a week ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
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...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
African History...
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...
3 weeks ago
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.
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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10 months ago
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 months ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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a year ago
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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a year ago
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
What Is the Ides of March?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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7 months ago
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