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Mole Rocket (1965)
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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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...
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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TheCollector
The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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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...
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
a week ago
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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TheCollector
The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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11 months ago
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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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
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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