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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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The Death of Clive of India
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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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...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
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
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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History Today Feed
‘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
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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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
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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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
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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