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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Io Saturnalia!
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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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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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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The Ocarina
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Planet Trip (1960)
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
3 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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6 months ago
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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
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
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
“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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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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2 months ago
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...
11 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
2 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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2 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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8 months ago
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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TheCollector
Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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a month ago
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months 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)...
8 months ago
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...
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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10 months ago
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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10 months ago
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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2 months ago
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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8 months ago
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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a month ago
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
TheCollector
Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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a week ago
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
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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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 months ago
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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4 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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3 weeks ago
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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2 months ago
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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4 months ago
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