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TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand undefined
7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games) Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt undefined
3 months ago
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace? undefined
2 months ago
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror? What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia? undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965) To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations. The Moon The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges undefined
a year ago
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis undefined
a year ago
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections undefined
3 months ago
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show undefined
10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? An indispensable organization
a month ago
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City What if the Syrians can’t return home?
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp undefined
11 months ago
Flashbak
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...
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House undefined
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? j.hoare Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy undefined
3 months ago
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide undefined
2 months ago
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ... Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy? undefined
14 hours ago
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival undefined
6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met undefined
9 months ago
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of undefined
7 months ago
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence undefined
a year ago
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About? undefined
a month ago
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi? undefined
9 months ago
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James? undefined
6 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
Flashbak
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
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna) undefined
11 months ago
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Who Was Saint Athanasius? undefined
8 months ago
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung? undefined
6 months ago
History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction? What Makes Good Historical Fiction? JamesHoare Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus Notes on Christian Syria
a week ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King? undefined
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period. Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!  A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem? undefined
a year 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
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s) Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Early Christianity
a year ago
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference? undefined
4 months ago
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant? A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923 To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations undefined
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans? undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024 Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours undefined
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review ‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review j.hoare Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
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...
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“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
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach undefined
3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
a week ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity? undefined
9 months ago
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What Was Organization Todt? undefined
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
3 hours ago
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited undefined
a year ago
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore? undefined
3 months ago
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele undefined
6 months ago
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution? undefined
4 months ago
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain undefined
2 months ago
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars undefined
8 months ago
Res Obscura
Post-postal What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta undefined
6 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925) The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions.     Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
TheCollector
The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History undefined
a week ago
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted? undefined
8 months ago
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik? undefined
3 weeks 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
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875 The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a  “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View Keeping Blinded Veterans in View JamesHoare Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States? undefined
7 months ago
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful Three theories
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review ‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review JamesHoare Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal undefined
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review ‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review JamesHoare Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know undefined
a year ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906 A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
TheCollector
8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II undefined
11 months ago
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What Makes a Conflict a World War? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969 With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd  – they produced similar games, also from the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago undefined
4 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers undefined
5 months ago
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye undefined
3 months ago
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986 “As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President? undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism? undefined
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy Ursa Major
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future. With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon undefined
a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch” undefined
5 months ago
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...
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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...
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner? undefined
4 months ago
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms undefined
5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon). 100r.co,...
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000 undefined
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan undefined
a week ago
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way How ASEAN Lost its Way JamesHoare Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know undefined
a year ago
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo undefined
10 months ago
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud? undefined
11 months ago
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
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America undefined
8 months ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education Sex Before Sex Education JamesHoare Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR undefined
11 months ago
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics? undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition) This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895) The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914 undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire undefined
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways j.hoare Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
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
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism undefined
a year ago
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Consolations of Boethius? undefined
5 days ago
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933) The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement undefined
a year ago
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
TheCollector
10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas undefined
11 months ago
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History) undefined
a year ago
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends undefined
a year ago
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae undefined
a year ago
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan JamesHoare Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle? undefined
5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom. government in central Africa.
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood ...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity undefined
3 weeks ago
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction undefined
6 months ago
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema? undefined
10 months ago
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process undefined
2 months ago
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena undefined
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963) More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children. New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946) The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here  https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/ Here is a biography of the controversial editor: https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean I...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree     In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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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...
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm   Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis   We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959) This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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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...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC    Richard...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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