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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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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...
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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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.
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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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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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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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...
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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...
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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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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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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What Is an Antipope?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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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...
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Aristotle's Poetics
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
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Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
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TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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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...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Is Populism?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Classical Wisdom
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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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...
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“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...
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What Is Capoeira?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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