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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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over a year ago
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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When technology follows art
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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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
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months 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
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
a month ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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TheCollector
TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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TheCollector
The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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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...
9 months ago
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
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a week ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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TheCollector
Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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