CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Flashbak
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....
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
Classical Wisdom
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Celebrate Cicero!
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Is Populism?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
3 weeks ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
History Today Feed
The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Flashbak
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...
3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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When Was D-Day?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
7 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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TheCollector
Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
2 weeks ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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TheCollector
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
3 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
10 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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