Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
9 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Flashbak
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...
4 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
Who Were the Kuomintang?
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TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
5 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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TheCollector
10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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TheCollector
8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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TheCollector
Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
4 days ago
An Epic Start to the New Year
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
a week ago
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
3 weeks ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
a week ago
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
3 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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a month ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
2 months ago
The world that created Caravaggio
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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5 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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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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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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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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The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Art of the Interesting
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Patterns in Humanity
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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