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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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Unlike For Like.
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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...
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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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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Overcoming Bias
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
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Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Who Was Julian?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Open Culture
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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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...
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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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...
2 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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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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,...
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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...
TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Flashbak
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...
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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...
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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.
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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2 days ago
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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a year ago
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
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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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
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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TheCollector
Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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