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TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution undefined
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Tolkien and Plato
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TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts? undefined
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality undefined
a month ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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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...
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video) undefined
6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass? undefined
11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers? undefined
10 months ago
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s “My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler   Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art? undefined
3 months ago
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World? undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review ‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review JamesHoare Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro undefined
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave! Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal? undefined
9 months 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...
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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...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders? Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West? undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River? undefined
3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library. Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom? undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960) To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus. Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings undefined
7 months ago
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024 What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas? undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024 Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842 The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024 undefined
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws? And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic Inventing Cyrillic JamesHoare Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution? undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado undefined
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ? Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most? undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) “I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch   Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper? undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed undefined
12 months ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar? undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian The Death of Einhard the Historian JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair undefined
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars JamesHoare Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said? Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said? JamesHoare Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories) undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands undefined
12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies? “Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals undefined
4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain Brushing for Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel The Tudor War on Libel JamesHoare Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
2 months ago
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter undefined
a month ago
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US? undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches The Allure of Medieval Churches JamesHoare Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
2 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906 Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving? undefined
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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...
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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
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism? undefined
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview undefined
3 months ago
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
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany undefined
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners Korea’s War of Prisoners JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer” undefined
a month ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World undefined
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TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It undefined
3 months ago
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW) “I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King undefined
11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens undefined
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible? undefined
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962) So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa? undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds. It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
Who Was the First President to Live in the White House? undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler? undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices undefined
6 months ago
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now. Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars? undefined
a month ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928 At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern? undefined
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian undefined
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army... This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark On the Spot: Chris Clark j.hoare Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca? undefined
6 months ago
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed? undefined
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo undefined
a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times? undefined
a year ago
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time undefined
2 weeks ago
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa? undefined
10 months ago
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How Did Romania Become a Country? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists. The demonstrators are responding to the...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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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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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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