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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Summary of changes for April
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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7 months ago
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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over a year ago
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Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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How to Save Democracy
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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3 months ago
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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2 months ago
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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a year ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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12 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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a month ago
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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a month ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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4 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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8 months ago
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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a month ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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9 months ago
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