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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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over a year ago
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
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TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
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TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Who Was Averroes?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Classical Wisdom
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
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TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Overcoming Bias
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
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TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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...
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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a year ago
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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TheCollector
6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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3 months ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
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JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
TheCollector
What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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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 March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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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...
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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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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Inside the Catholic State
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The world that created Caravaggio
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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