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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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The Machine Stops.
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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A Collection of...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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6 months ago
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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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
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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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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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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,...
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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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...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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2 months ago
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a week ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
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...
7 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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a month ago
Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
TheCollector
Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
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...
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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a week ago
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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2 months ago
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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8 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
8 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
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