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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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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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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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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...
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The Performance is Over
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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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...
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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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...
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Flashbak
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...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
19 hours ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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a year ago
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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a year ago
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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2 months ago
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
6 days ago
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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TheCollector
The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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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...
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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4 months ago
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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10 months ago
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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7 months ago
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
2 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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