TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
over a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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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 Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
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The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Open Culture
Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating...
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana...
6 days ago
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana winds start blowing down through the passes, and the relative humidity drops to figures like seven or six or three per cent, and the bougainvillea starts rattling in the driveway,...
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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TheCollector
Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
7 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
What Was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
9 months ago
TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
11 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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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
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
11 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
9 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
2 months ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
2 months ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
a month ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
7 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
2 months ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
3 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
3 weeks ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
a month ago
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
3 weeks ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
4 days ago
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
11 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
8 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
2 months ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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TheCollector
5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
over a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
10 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
8 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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TheCollector
How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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TheCollector
The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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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".
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
7 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
10 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
What Were Hobart’s Funnies?
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TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
6 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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The Epics Collection
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Olaf Tryggvason: The Christian Viking’s Life & Death
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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African History...
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a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Lineup Revealed for First Sotheby’s Auction in Saudi Arabia
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Where Did King Arthur Fight His Legendary Battles?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Technology indistinguishable from magic
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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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...
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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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Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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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,...
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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The Life of Terence
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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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...
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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...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Love and Death
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Why Are Most Female Pharaohs Unrecorded in History?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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History and Myth
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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