Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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TheCollector
George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious 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...
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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TheCollector
What’s the History of Gin?
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TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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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?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
12 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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4 days ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
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TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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TheCollector
The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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10 months ago
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
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
2 weeks ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
yesterday
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JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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7 months ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
3 weeks ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
2 months ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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TheCollector
Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
2 months ago
TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
2 months ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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4 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
2 months ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
a week ago
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
2 weeks ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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TheCollector
More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘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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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
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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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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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...
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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