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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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TheCollector
The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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TheCollector
How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
a month ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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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...
a year ago
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
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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2 months ago
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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a year ago
Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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TheCollector
What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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TheCollector
Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year 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.
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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...
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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9 months ago
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