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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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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...
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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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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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The Wages Of Fear
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Death of the King of Siam
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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Gods Vs Titans
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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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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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
TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
TheCollector
Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
2 days ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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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
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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11 months ago
Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
6 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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a year ago
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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a month ago
Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
4 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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a year 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...
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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5 months ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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4 months 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
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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