TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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The Past Is Another Country.
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
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A Wasting Asset?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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Some people never grow up.
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Who Was George Eliot?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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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...
12 months ago
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 First Corinthians About?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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No End Of A Lesson.
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
12 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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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
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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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...
4 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
4 weeks ago
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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TheCollector
How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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TheCollector
Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
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Historical origins of the malaise
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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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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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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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
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
Classical Wisdom
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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The Roman Socrates
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Essential Classics
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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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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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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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
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Classical Wisdom
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The End of the World?
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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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,...
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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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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....
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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...
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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