Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months 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...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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8 months ago
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
a week ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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12 months ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
a week ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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3 days ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
a month ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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a week ago
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 months ago
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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a week ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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2 weeks ago
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
a week ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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a year ago
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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12 months ago
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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7 months ago
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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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...
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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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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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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In Search of Homer
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Tolkien and the Classics
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Summary of changes for April
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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The Art of the Interesting
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History and Myth
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
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We might not be in this mess.
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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