TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Sex Before Sex Education
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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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
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Trying to Understand...
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a year ago
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New Year, Old Books
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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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
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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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...
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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TheCollector
5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
a year ago
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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TheCollector
10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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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
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
Classical Wisdom
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Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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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
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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What Is Theodicy?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
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TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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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!
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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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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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Res Obscura
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Most of them are not from 2023
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Hidden History
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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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...
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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.
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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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...
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The "New" Ancient City
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Empress Theodora
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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How to Steal From Homer
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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