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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric The Power of Persuasion
5 months ago
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World undefined
a year ago
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination? Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution undefined
6 months ago
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre The St Brice’s Day Massacre JamesHoare Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent? undefined
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup Prometheus and AI?
2 months ago
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block undefined
a year ago
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What is Modernity? What is Modernity? JamesHoare Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable? undefined
4 months ago
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles? undefined
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works undefined
a year ago
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century undefined
a year ago
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography undefined
5 months ago
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris undefined
4 months ago
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II? undefined
a year ago
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times undefined
a month ago
Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &... In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway? What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
a month ago
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...
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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...
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage undefined
4 months ago
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry? undefined
6 months ago
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings undefined
a year ago
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire undefined
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist undefined
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die? undefined
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know undefined
8 months ago
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy undefined
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible undefined
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology? undefined
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber undefined
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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...
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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...
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review ‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review JamesHoare Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans ...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History “At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections undefined
3 months ago
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States undefined
a year ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture undefined
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene undefined
7 months ago
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know undefined
9 months ago
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative undefined
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers ...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes? undefined
7 months ago
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud? undefined
8 months ago
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth? undefined
8 months ago
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict undefined
6 months ago
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich undefined
7 months ago
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico undefined
a year ago
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General undefined
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like? undefined
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism undefined
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language undefined
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna undefined
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State. But is there anything there?
4 weeks ago
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III undefined
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea? undefined
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor undefined
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world. A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River? undefined
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty undefined
2 months ago
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth undefined
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes undefined
a year ago
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958) A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images. Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.) Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
TheCollector
4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru undefined
6 months ago
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Who Was Susan Sontag? undefined
a year ago
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy undefined
3 months ago
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady undefined
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis undefined
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954) An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles undefined
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953) An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure.  Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality? undefined
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon
a year ago
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City undefined
5 months ago
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Inventing Cyrillic Inventing Cyrillic JamesHoare Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It) undefined
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To undefined
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London undefined
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar? undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow? undefined
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process undefined
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers undefined
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style undefined
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema undefined
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art undefined
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit undefined
a year ago
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country. A book review from the future.
5 months ago
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What Is the History of the Blues? undefined
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History undefined
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights undefined
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Do We Need Dress Codes? Are standards elevating or elitist?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc undefined
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
9 months ago
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Can Any Good Come From War? The Tragedy of the Trenches
7 months ago
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million undefined
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey? undefined
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China? undefined
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity? undefined
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism undefined
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe undefined
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore? undefined
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece undefined
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible? undefined
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem undefined
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari On the Spot: Ali Ansari JamesHoare Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator undefined
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III undefined
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley undefined
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Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus Notes on Christian Syria
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go? undefined
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius! A Celebration of Virtue
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam undefined
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda? undefined
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ... Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today undefined
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
9 months ago
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism? undefined
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist undefined
a year ago
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They? undefined
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories) undefined
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux? undefined
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore? undefined
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show undefined
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA undefined
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals undefined
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless undefined
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith? undefined
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings undefined
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams? Should we pay attention to them?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis undefined
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus? undefined
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy? undefined
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda? undefined
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review ‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review JamesHoare Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know undefined
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958 Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer” undefined
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Who Were the 43 Group? undefined
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter? undefined
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover undefined
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other undefined
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter? undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963) Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again. What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance? undefined
3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. It was all too difficult, finally.
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors undefined
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973) For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Life of Plato
9 months ago
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa undefined
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And... Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More undefined
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora undefined
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City “The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis   We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
2 months ago
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking undefined
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US undefined
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature? undefined
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear? undefined
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby undefined
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough? undefined
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting? undefined
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance? undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages undefined
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera? undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome undefined
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Who Were the Axis Powers? undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So? undefined
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear? undefined
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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
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk) undefined
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman undefined
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