TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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2 months ago
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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a year ago
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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a year ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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11 months ago
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
TheCollector
Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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a week ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
a week ago
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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2 months ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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TheCollector
The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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a year ago
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 months ago
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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2 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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9 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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a month ago
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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9 months ago
TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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a year ago
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 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
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
2 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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5 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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a year ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
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...
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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3 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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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.
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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8 months ago
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 months ago
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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a year ago
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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a year ago
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
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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a year ago
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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4 months ago
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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a year ago
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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8 months ago
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
3 days ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 months ago
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
9 months ago
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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2 months ago
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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