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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Overcoming Bias
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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The (history of) spice must flow
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The world according to Garegnani
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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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How the CCP is Closing China
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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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,...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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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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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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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...
a week 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
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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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...
2 weeks 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...
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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TheCollector
The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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TheCollector
10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year 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...
9 months ago
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
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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TheCollector
What Is Russian Futurism?
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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a month ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Flashbak
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...
2 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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a month ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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