Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
a month ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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History Today Feed
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
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
2 months ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months 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
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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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...
a month 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...
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
an hour ago
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
a year ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
TheCollector
What Is Gnosticism?
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TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
8 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
12 months ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
a month ago
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
a month ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
3 weeks ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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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” –...
3 months ago
“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,...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
4 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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a year ago
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
2 days ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Centuries of Childhood
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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African History...
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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The Great Experience (1963)
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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The Cyclops
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Was Négritude?
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Stoicism and Stress
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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