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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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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...
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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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
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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3 weeks ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Flashbak
‘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...
7 months ago
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
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Weekend Roundup
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
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j.hoare
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History Today Review of the Year
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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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TheCollector
Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Classical Wisdom
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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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
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
2 weeks ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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An Epic Start to the New Year
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
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TheCollector
Was Jesus a Radical?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
TheCollector
Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Flashbak
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...
8 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...
TheCollector
What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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A Brief History of Chile
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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