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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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5 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Baroque
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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...
Flashbak
Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
6 days ago
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir. When...
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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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...
5 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
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
7 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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10 Things to Do at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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TheCollector
Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
7 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
2 weeks ago
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
9 months ago
CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
a month ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
11 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
5 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
9 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
7 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
9 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
The History of Braga, Portugal & 16 Must-See Historic Sites
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
11 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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...
a year 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...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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History Today Feed
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
2 days ago
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
11 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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TheCollector
What Is Ephesians About?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a month ago
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JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
4 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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...
a month 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...
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
a week ago
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Open Culture
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic...
11 hours ago
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The school’s relationships with artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo...
TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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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...
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
a year ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
Classical Wisdom
How To Beat Brain Rot
Combat the Word of the Year
a week ago
Combat the Word of the Year
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
What Is Philippians About?
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TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
3 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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History Today Feed
Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra?
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TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
12 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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TheCollector
Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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