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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Who You Are Vs. What You Control
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
TheCollector
How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Hundred Rabbits
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
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TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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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...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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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 and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Beware the Lides of March
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What’s the History of Gin?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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