TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
African History...
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a year ago
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...
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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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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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Res Obscura
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TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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What Is Populism?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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weird medieval guys
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
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a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
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over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
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Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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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...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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a year ago
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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a year ago
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Classical Wisdom
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The Art of the Interesting
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What is True?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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TheCollector
Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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a year ago
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Classical Wisdom
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Slave turned Playwright
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
10 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
Classical Wisdom
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And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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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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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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3 months ago
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
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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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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12 months ago
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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5 months ago
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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2 months ago
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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6 months ago
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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10 months ago
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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a month ago
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a week ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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3 months ago
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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a month ago
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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3 months ago
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 months ago
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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8 months ago
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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3 months ago
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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...
3 weeks ago
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...
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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4 months ago
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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3 months ago
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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a month ago
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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12 months ago
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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a year ago
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Are Conlangs?
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11 months ago
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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9 months ago
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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a year ago
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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a week ago
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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11 months ago
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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6 months ago
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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9 months ago
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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7 months ago
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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4 months ago
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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a year ago
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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a year ago
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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11 months ago
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 months ago
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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2 months ago
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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6 months ago
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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a year ago
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