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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Classical Wisdom
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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The Water Is Rising.
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
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For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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When Was D-Day?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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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...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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the promise of pancakes
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over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Wrong Side of...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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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?
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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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...
a year ago
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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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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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,”...
4 months ago
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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3 days ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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7 months ago
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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2 months ago
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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8 months ago
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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4 months ago
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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12 months ago
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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3 months ago
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
4 weeks ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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a year ago
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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7 months ago
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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...
7 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...
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 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
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 months ago
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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7 months ago
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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a month ago
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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6 months ago
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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2 months ago
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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2 months ago
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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9 months ago
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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6 months ago
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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2 months ago
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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a year ago
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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a month ago
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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6 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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9 months ago
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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6 months ago
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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7 months ago
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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3 weeks ago
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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3 months ago
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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9 months ago
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
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
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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a year ago
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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6 months ago
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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6 months ago
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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4 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
2 weeks ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 months ago
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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