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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Forgotten Gods
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Aristotle on Luck
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Do You Listen Well?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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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...
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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the rock of polynesia
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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What Is the Didache?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Io Saturnalia!
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Hundred Rabbits
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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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...
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
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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.
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
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.
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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8 months ago
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
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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a year ago
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
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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a year ago
Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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...
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
TheCollector
Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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a week ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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...
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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11 months ago
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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5 months ago
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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a month ago
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