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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
8 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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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...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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TheCollector
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Flashbak
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...
5 months ago
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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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Travels in the Air, 1871
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above...
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“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above the infinite expanse of sky” – James Glaisher, Travels In The Air, 1871 Travels in the Air tells the story of balloon travel since the first ‘aerostatic’ flight by the...
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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Overcoming Bias
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
5 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Mangal Pandey: The Spark That Ignited the Sepoy Mutiny
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Flashbak
Momoyogusa (A World of Things) by Kamisaka Sekka (1909-1910)
Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World...
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Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World of Things) between 1909 and 1910. The three-volume set of 60 images, commissioned by the publishing firm Unsōdō of Kyoto, borrows its name from the eighth-century poetic text...
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
5 months ago
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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3 months ago
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Service to what nation?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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weird medieval guys
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
10 months ago
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
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a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
over a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
6 months ago
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
a week ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
a year ago
Open Culture
Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses...
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan...
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A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $199) gives you access to 90% of Coursera’s courses, Guided Projects, Specializations, and...
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
11 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
11 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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7 months ago
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Democracy
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Hundred Rabbits
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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10 Historic Towns in Tennessee You Should Visit
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
a year ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
Patterns in Humanity
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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...
a month ago
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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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
11 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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A Brief History of Chile
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
2 months ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
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