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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
10 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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6 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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12 months ago
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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8 months ago
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
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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...
7 months ago
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...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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9 months ago
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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a year ago
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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8 months ago
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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5 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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3 days ago
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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a month ago
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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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...
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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8 months ago
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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5 months ago
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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2 months ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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a week ago
Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Hundred Rabbits
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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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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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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