TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
19 hours ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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...
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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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
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 months ago
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
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
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
10 months ago
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Overcoming Bias
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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