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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Res Obscura
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Moving With the Times?
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TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
A Collection of...
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,...
7 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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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...
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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