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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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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...
8 months ago
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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What Is Transcendentalism?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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5 months ago
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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6 months ago
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 months ago
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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3 weeks ago
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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a year ago
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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7 months ago
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
11 months ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a week ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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6 months ago
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
a year ago
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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2 months ago
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
a year ago
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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7 months ago
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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a year ago
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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11 months ago
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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3 months ago
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 months ago
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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...
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“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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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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9 months ago
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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9 months ago
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
a month ago
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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10 months ago
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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2 months ago
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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9 months ago
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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8 months ago
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