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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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where is the turtle farm
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over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Last Chance!
a year ago
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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. ...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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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
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
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...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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
What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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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...
a week ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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,...
TheCollector
Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The Mother of Rome
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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A History of the United States Senate
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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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...
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Events Schedule
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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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
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
What Is Thatcherism?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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