TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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TheCollector
Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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TheCollector
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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What Was Négritude?
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History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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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
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
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TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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...
5 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...
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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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...
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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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...
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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...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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a year ago
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Happy Journeys (1961)
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Gladiator Combat
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Brushing for Britain
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Empedocles
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Gods Vs Titans
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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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...
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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