TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
2 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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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
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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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 …...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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?
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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The Epics Collection
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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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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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Space Witch (1959)
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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