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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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.
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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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,...
5 months ago
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...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
11 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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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...
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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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...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
6 months ago
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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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...
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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...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
3 weeks ago
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
2 weeks ago
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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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,...
6 months ago
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
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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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...
a month ago
(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...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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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...
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
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a year ago
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
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
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
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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...
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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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
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What Is the Will to Power?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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