Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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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...
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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a year ago
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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8 months ago
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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a year ago
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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6 days ago
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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11 months ago
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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5 days ago
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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a year ago
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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a year ago
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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a year ago
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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a year ago
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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3 weeks ago
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
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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a year ago
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
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
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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6 months ago
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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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...
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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a year ago
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...
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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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...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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