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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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8 months ago
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The Secrets of Crete
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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a year ago
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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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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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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TheCollector
King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
6 hours ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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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.
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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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)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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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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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
TheCollector
The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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7 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...
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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TheCollector
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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TheCollector
Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
2 weeks ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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a year ago
Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
a month ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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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.
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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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?
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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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...
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...
6 days ago
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
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Is Voguing?
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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