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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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How to Give a Speech
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Nature in Greek Myth
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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...
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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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...
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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...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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3 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
a month ago
The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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9 months ago
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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8 months ago
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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3 weeks ago
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
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
11 months ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 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
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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4 months ago
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 days ago
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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a week ago
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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