Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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11 months ago
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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10 months ago
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
a month ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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5 months ago
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 months ago
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
4 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 months ago
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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11 months ago
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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a year ago
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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a year ago
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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2 months ago
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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7 months ago
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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3 months ago
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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5 months ago
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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6 months ago
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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a month ago
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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10 months ago
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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4 weeks ago
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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a month ago
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
12 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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a month ago
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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9 months ago
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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11 months ago
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...
2 months 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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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 months ago
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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a year ago
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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a year ago
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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5 months ago
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
2 months ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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a month ago
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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4 months ago
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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5 months ago
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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6 months ago
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
2 weeks ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
2 weeks ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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...
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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5 months ago
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
a month ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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a year ago
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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2 weeks ago
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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10 months ago
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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6 months ago
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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6 months ago
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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5 months ago
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
5 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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10 months ago
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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a year ago
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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a year ago
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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7 months ago
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
a month ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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10 months ago
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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a month ago
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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4 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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2 months ago
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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a month ago
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
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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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 Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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7 months ago
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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a year ago
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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12 months ago
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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7 months ago
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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9 months ago
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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4 months ago
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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5 months ago
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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3 months ago
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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a year ago
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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11 months ago
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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9 months ago
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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a year ago
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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7 months ago
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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a year ago
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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3 months ago
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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a year ago
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
3 weeks ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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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...
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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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!
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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9 months ago
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
4 days ago
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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