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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
a week ago
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
3 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
a year ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Hobart’s Funnies?
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TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
2 months ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
5 months 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?
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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a year ago
Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic...
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
a week ago
Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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TheCollector
What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
a year ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
6 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
4 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Titus About?
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TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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8 months ago
Flashbak
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:...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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6 months ago
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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4 weeks ago
Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
a week ago
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
9 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
4 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
6 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
TheCollector
Los Angeles Museums Launch Fire Relief Fund for Artists
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6 days ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
a year ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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a year ago
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
6 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
8 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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a year ago
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
3 days ago
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Yourself Through Jung: A Guide to Individuation & Self-Discovery
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2 weeks ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
11 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Utah
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
3 weeks ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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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...
3 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...
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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...
10 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...
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
8 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
7 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
3 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
10 London Museums You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
5 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
3 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
3 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
6 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
7 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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2 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Britain's sinking reputation
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
2 weeks ago
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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a month ago
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
5 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
2 months ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
over a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
4 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Momoyogusa (A World of Things) by Kamisaka Sekka (1909-1910)
Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World...
yesterday
Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese 1866 – 1942) produced his woodblock print masterpiece Momoyogusa (A World of Things) between 1909 and 1910. The three-volume set of 60 images, commissioned by the publishing firm Unsōdō of Kyoto, borrows its name from the eighth-century poetic text...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Wandsworth Prison Blues
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
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It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in San Diego
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
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But what about the rest of us?
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
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TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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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...
5 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...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
2 months ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
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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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6 of History’s Biggest Traitors
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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A History of the United States Senate
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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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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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 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....
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
2 weeks ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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