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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
a week ago
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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