TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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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)...
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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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...
7 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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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
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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...
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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
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Classical Wisdom
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The Lives of Exiles
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Ancient Greek Art
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Julius Caesar
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Patterns in Humanity
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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TheCollector
3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
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TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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Aristotle's Poetics
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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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...
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Overcoming Bias
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
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j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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