Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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a month ago
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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9 months ago
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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5 months ago
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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a year ago
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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3 months ago
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
7 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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7 months ago
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
3 weeks ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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11 months ago
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Flashbak
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...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
a month ago
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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6 months ago
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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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
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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A History of the United States Senate
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Dreams of Space -...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Is Theodicy?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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How Should We Look at History?
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Plato on Political Polarization
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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