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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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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...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Dreams of Space -...
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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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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...
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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a year ago
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
11 months ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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a month ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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a month ago
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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a month ago
TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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a month ago
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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2 weeks ago
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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a month ago
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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...
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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6 days ago
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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2 months ago
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