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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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a year ago
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...
a week ago
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...
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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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...
2 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...
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Was Organization Todt?
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TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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