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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
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...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
4 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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4 months ago
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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4 months ago
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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TheCollector
Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
3 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
5 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
2 days ago
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
3 weeks ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
Flashbak
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...
a month 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...
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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TheCollector
Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
10 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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a year ago
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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2 months ago
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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11 months ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 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...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
4 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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.
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2 months ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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TheCollector
Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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TheCollector
Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
11 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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8 months ago
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA
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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...
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The Last Day of World War One
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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The Tudor War on Libel
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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A History of the United States Senate
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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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...
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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Who Was Julian?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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6 Must-See English Castles
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Overcoming Bias
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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