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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Seamus Heaney
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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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...
6 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Secret of the Stoics
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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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...
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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
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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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...
TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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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?
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 months ago
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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TheCollector
What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
7 months ago
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Flashbak
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...
11 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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10 months ago
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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a month ago
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