Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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12 months ago
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
3 days ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
4 days ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
2 weeks ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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TheCollector
What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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a year ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
TheCollector
Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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TheCollector
Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
2 weeks ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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What Is the Didache?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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A Collection of...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Hidden History
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Important Notice
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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African History...
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state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Historical origins of the malaise
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Arguing with the Dead
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JamesHoare
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Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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