TheCollector
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
undefined
6 days 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:...
4 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...
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
undefined
2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
undefined
9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
undefined
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
over a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
undefined
3 months ago
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
10 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
Olaf Tryggvason: The Christian Viking’s Life & Death
undefined
yesterday
TheCollector
Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
undefined
a month ago
Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
a week ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
undefined
4 months ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
a year ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
undefined
5 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
8 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
undefined
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
undefined
2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
5 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
undefined
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The MUST-READ Classics
3 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
undefined
a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
undefined
5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
2 days ago
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
7 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
6 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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...
5 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...
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
undefined
9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
a week ago
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
undefined
a month ago
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Russian Futurism?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
undefined
11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
undefined
2 months ago
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 Vernon Lee?
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
11 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Flashbak
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...
4 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
undefined
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
a month ago
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Year 1 of History? Comparing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Conventions
undefined
3 days ago
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
undefined
10 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
11 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
undefined
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
undefined
2 months ago
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
undefined
8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Wandsworth Prison Blues
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
2 hours ago
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
undefined
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
11 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
3 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
undefined
3 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
undefined
12 months ago
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
undefined
9 months ago
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...
a year 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...
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
undefined
7 months ago
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
11 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
undefined
6 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
undefined
10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
over a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
6 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
undefined
9 months ago
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
3 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
5 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
undefined
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
Flashbak
A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’...
2 weeks ago
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
undefined
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
a year ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
4 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
undefined
4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Britain's Chernobyl?
How bad will the fallout be?
a week ago
How bad will the fallout be?
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
undefined
6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
a month ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
undefined
a year ago
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...
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
6 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
undefined
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
12 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
a year ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
a month ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
2 months ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
undefined
11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
undefined
9 months ago
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
3 days ago
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
undefined
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
undefined
a year ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
4 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
6 months ago
Flashbak
Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
a week ago
Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
undefined
11 months ago
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor
undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
What Practices Did the Puritans Enjoy?
undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
9 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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.
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
undefined
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
5 months ago
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
undefined
a year ago
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
7 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
undefined
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
9 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
undefined
3 months ago
Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
2 months ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
undefined
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
undefined
3 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
11 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
undefined
6 months ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
undefined
6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
6 months ago
Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List 