TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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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
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
Res Obscura
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a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
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
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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a month ago
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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4 months ago
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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5 months ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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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 History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Love, love, love
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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5 months ago
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Res Obscura
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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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
Classical Wisdom
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
TheCollector
American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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a month ago
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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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...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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But right back where we started from.
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks 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
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Blindspots and Biographies
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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