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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
a month ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
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...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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2 months ago
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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a month ago
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
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
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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10 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
3 days ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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7 months ago
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Flashbak
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...
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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4 days ago
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
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
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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a month ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
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
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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a year ago
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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