TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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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
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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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 Were the Kuomintang?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
a week ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
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.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
5 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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a month ago
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
NEW Event
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
11 months ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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6 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
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
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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2 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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a year ago
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
TheCollector
Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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What Is Voguing?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
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