TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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a year ago
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
3 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Titus About?
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3 days ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
5 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
a month ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a month ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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2 months ago
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
8 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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a year ago
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
11 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Stoicism and Buddhism
a week ago
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
12 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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7 months ago
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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a month ago
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
a month ago
But is there anything there?
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
2 months ago
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
a year ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
7 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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8 months ago
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
3 weeks ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
8 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a month ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
2 months ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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11 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...
9 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
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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a year ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
3 weeks ago
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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4 months ago
Open Culture
Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation...
“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have...
a week ago
“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have generally depicted pretty mundane worlds,” writes Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. “Sure, there have been talking animals, a few spaceships and whatnot, but the comics have...
TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
10 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
4 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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7 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
2 weeks ago
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
TheCollector
Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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9 months ago
TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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a month ago
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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a week ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
9 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
11 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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11 months ago
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
8 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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a year ago
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
3 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
11 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
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...
2 months 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...
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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7 months ago
Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
5 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
2 months ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
a year ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Acts About in the Bible?
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7 hours ago
TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Major Players of the Haitian Revolution
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a week ago
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
Open Culture
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various...
a week ago
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
TheCollector
What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
8 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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...
3 months ago
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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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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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
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France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
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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...
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Why Should We Care About Children?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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The Wrong Stuff
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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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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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Norse Mythology: Pantheon, Ragnarok, Creation, & More
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Martin Luther King and LOVE
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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