TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Colorado
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6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
4 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
3 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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JamesHoare
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 weeks ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
Classical Wisdom
Cicero and Leadership
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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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.
9 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
9 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
3 weeks ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
4 weeks ago
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
6 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
11 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
4 months ago
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
9 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
6 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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....
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
11 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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TheCollector
Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Trying to Understand...
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
2 weeks ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
8 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
6 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
9 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
2 weeks ago
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
a year ago
TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
Who Was the Real Henry III?
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
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Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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TheCollector
This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
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TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Lineup Revealed for First Sotheby’s Auction in Saudi Arabia
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TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
4 weeks ago
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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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...
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“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...
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
11 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Secrets of the Scythians
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
11 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
2 weeks ago
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
3 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
3 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
7 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
8 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
3 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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.
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
2 weeks ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
5 days ago
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:54
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Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:54
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
12 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
11 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
a month ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
over a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
a month ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
3 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
a month ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Who Won the Battle of Chattanooga?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
2 months ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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