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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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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...
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
What Is Russian Futurism?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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The Electoral College Explained
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
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JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
a month ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
A Brief History of Chile
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TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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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
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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