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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Our Authoritarian Default
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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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...
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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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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“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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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Death of the King of Siam
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Summary of changes for May 2023
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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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...
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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To all the newspapers I loved
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Threat of Back to Normal
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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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,...
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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American polarisation
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
2 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days 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, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
a week ago
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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.
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
a month ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
4 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
11 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
11 months ago
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
a month ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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