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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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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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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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TheCollector
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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African History...
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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TheCollector
What Is Panpsychism?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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TheCollector
7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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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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The Lives of Exiles
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
CrimethInc.
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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What Is Populism?
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History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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What Is Solipsism?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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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
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
11 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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TheCollector
The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Flashbak
Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
2 days ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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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
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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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...
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
a month ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
2 months ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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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....
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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...
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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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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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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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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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
A Collection of...
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 Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
12 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
10 months ago