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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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Borrowing from a book-seller...
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Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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CrimethInc.
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Oops! I did it again...
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Getting our events straight...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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A Collection of...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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The Epics Collection
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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9 months ago
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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...
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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...
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
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
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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a week ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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a month ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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9 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...
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
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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a month ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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3 months ago
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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9 months ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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4 months ago
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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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...
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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a year 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
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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a year ago
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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