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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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7 months ago
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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TheCollector
Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
a year ago
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Is Thatcherism?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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11 months ago
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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9 months ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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8 months ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
TheCollector
René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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12 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
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
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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11 months ago
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
a month ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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a year ago
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
TheCollector
The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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7 months ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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4 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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