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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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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...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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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...
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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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
TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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TheCollector
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
2 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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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...
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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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
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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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...
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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...
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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What Is Theodicy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
2 months ago
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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