Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
3 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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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...
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...
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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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!!!!!
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
11 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
2 months ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
5 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
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5 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
a month ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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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...
TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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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...
2 weeks 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...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
2 months ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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10 months ago
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
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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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
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
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...
a week 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...
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Summary of changes for December 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Classical Wisdom
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Nothing connects.
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Wrong Side of...
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Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
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over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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