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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Stock vs flow approach.
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Dreams of Space -...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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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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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Are Conlangs?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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What is the “Mind”?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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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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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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TheCollector
How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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TheCollector
How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
6 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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11 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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a year ago
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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