TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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One Way Or Another ....
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Hey everyone!
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a year ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
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The Life of Plato
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
a year ago
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Life of Terence
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
6 months ago
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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